UN’s Palestinian teachers EXPOSED as Hamas-loving jihadis: Congress learns of Telegram club of 3,000 educators praising ‘holy warriors’ who left Israelis ‘dead in hell’ on Oct. 7
UN aid chiefs in Gaza faced increasing pressure on Tuesday, with revelations that 3,000 of their Palestinian teachers shared messages in support of Hamas militants as they raped and murdered civilians in Israel on October 7.
Hillel Neuer, the director of UN Watch, which monitors the UN, told Congress about his investigation into a Telegram channel for UN teachers in Gaza that was filled with messages from members praising the massacre.
The hearing came in the wake of revelations that 12 employees of the UN Palestinian aid agency UNRWA had taken part in kidnappings and killings on October 7, prompting the US and others to cut funding to the organization.
Neuer told the House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday that the disgraced UN agency must be “dissolved” for good.
“It’s time to stop pretending that UNRWA is fixable at all,” Neuer said.
Hillel Neuer urged a House of Representatives foreign affairs committee to ‘dissolve’ UNRWA
Neuer presented messages from a Telegram group to 3,000 Palestinian teachers at the UN aid agency there, UNRWA
“The very existence of a Telegram group of 3,000 teachers in which members celebrate Hamas’s atrocities is merely a symptom of UNRWA’s core problem: its true purpose is to undo the creation of Israel in 1948.”
Are research entrenched in a Telegram chat group used by UNRWA teachers to share files, staff names and teaching materials.
But it was also full of posts celebrating Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, praising the terrorists who raped and murdered civilians as “heroes.”
Users on the channel glorified the “education” the terrorists received, sharing photos of dead or captured Israelis and calling for the execution of hostages.
Some comments were posted within minutes after Hamas militants began their wave of rapes, killings and kidnappings on October 7.
Safaa Mohammad Al Najjar, a group administrator, praised the act of “resistance” and the “holy warriors” who invaded Israeli territory.
She decorated her texts with a red heart emoji.
Another member of the group commented on a photo of a dead Hamas fighter.
“Our martyrs are in heaven,” he wrote, adding that the “dead of Israel are in hell.”
Users also regularly share videos, photos and messages that incite “jihadist terrorism” and openly celebrate the mass murder and rape of civilians by Hamas terrorists, Neuer told the panel.
In a message highlighted in the report, UNRWA teacher Waseem Ula shared a video glorifying the Hamas attacks and posted a photo of a suicide bomb vest containing explosives.
The caption read: “Wait, sons of Judaism.”
He also allegedly idolized one of the October 7 attackers as a “friend” and “brother.”
Allah should admit him to Paradise “without judgement,” he added.
Another UNRWA teacher, Abdallah Mehjez, used the group to urge Gaza citizens not to heed Israeli warnings to move out of harm’s way and instead serve as human shields.
The commission also found that Palestinian students at UN-supported schools are taught to hate Israelis.
UNRWA is “not what it claims to be: a humanitarian organization that helps Palestinians,” Neuer said.
“It’s become part of the problem.”
The hearing was repeatedly interrupted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
It followed the publication of an Israeli intelligence dossier that had identified some 190 UNRWA employees, including teachers, as Hamas or Islamic Jihad militants, with names and photographs of 11 of them.
The UN agency for Palestinians, known as UNRWA, provides aid and education to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, such as this school in Hebron
An UNRWA hub for Palestinian refugees in Sidon, Lebanon
Members of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees are said to have committed horrific acts against Israelis during the October 7 Hamas terror attacks, as the US and several other countries cut funding
The six-page dossier prompted a whole series of countries to stop funding UNRWA
Members of UNRWA took part in assassinations, kidnappings and arming terrorists during attacks on settlements, the explosive document alleges.
The suspects, who have not been named, include teachers, other forms of school staff, a clerk, a social worker and a warehouse manager.
One worker is believed to have taken part in one of the kibbutz massacres that killed 97 of the 1,200 Israeli victims that day.
Another is accused of kidnapping an Israeli woman into Gaza, while another is said to have distributed rocket-propelled grenades during the bloody ambush.
The damning allegations say UNRWA employees did everything from a school counselor allegedly helping to kidnap a woman, others distributing ammunition and rocket-propelled grenades and another who allegedly participated in a kibbutz massacre that left 97 people dead.
An aerial view of destroyed buildings as a result of the Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on January 26
The UN aid agency said it had dismissed workers who were still alive while it launched an investigation into claims about the explosion.
The US State Department said it was “extremely disturbed” by the claims and called for “full accountability” for those involved in the October 7 attacks.
Donors including Germany, Britain, Italy, Australia, Japan and Finland followed the lead of the US, which said on Friday it had “temporarily halted additional funding” to the agency.
“As we rebuild Gaza, UNRWA must be replaced by agencies committed to genuine peace and development,” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said in a statement, urging more donors to suspend funding.
The organization promises a thorough investigation into the claims, even before the explosive nature of the allegations came to light.
Palestinians have accused Israel of falsifying information to smear UNRWA.
Israel says about 1,200 people were killed and 253 kidnapped by Hamas fighters in the Oct. 7 attack, which sparked an Israeli invasion and a war that has dragged on among the U.S., Iranian allies and others.