Hamas's weaponization of UNRWA in Gaza needs to be fully exposed and understood. A newly released video that was filmed by Hamas terrorists themselves shows how the group used an UNRWA elementary school for children in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, to hide weapons that connect to an underground route. You can tell it's an UNRWA school by the use of blue window guards, a color the UN agency uses distinctly, which I remember from growing up in Gaza and attending UNRWA schools there.
From its schools, clinics, and headquarters to its displacement camps during the war, the level of penetration by Hamas of UNRWA's educational and medical infrastructure points to a deeply disturbing fact: the agency is so thoroughly and deeply compromised and has massive Hamas networks operating at every rank from within. There is no way that the UN agency did not know the extent to which its system was weaponized for terrorism by Hamas.
The journey to reclaim, rebuild, rejuvenate, revitalize, and reconstitute Gaza must entail the ending of UNRWA's operations inside the coastal enclave. UN agencies can and should play an interim role in the Strip's recovery, but there must never again be space for a permanent industrial complex that monopolizes the aid, acts like a humanitarian mafia, and fails to keep violent terrorists and Jihadis out of its schools, classrooms, and system.
It's time to end UNRWA's presence in Gaza once and for all and to allow for new educational infrastructure to take shape, focused on bolstering pragmatism, moderation, nation-building, science and technology, and Gaza's regional integration.
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