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| | In May 2024, the [[Knesset]] advanced bill to designate UNRWA as a terrorist organization.<ref>[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-knesset-advances-bill-to-designate-unrwa-as-a-terrorist-organization Knesset advances bill to designate UNRWA as a terrorist organization], ''i24 news'', May 29, 2024.</ref> | | In May 2024, the [[Knesset]] advanced bill to designate UNRWA as a terrorist organization.<ref>[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-knesset-advances-bill-to-designate-unrwa-as-a-terrorist-organization Knesset advances bill to designate UNRWA as a terrorist organization], ''i24 news'', May 29, 2024.</ref> |
| | "It seeks to abolish the immunities and privileges currently enjoyed by UNRWA employees." | | "It seeks to abolish the immunities and privileges currently enjoyed by UNRWA employees." |
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| | + | [[NYT]]: Documents show top administrators at UNRWA schools were Hamas fighters. Terror group’s internal records identify 24 school employees as operatives, half of whom were issued rifles, grenades; one principal was known to wear Hamas fatigues after school.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/world/middleeast/hamas-unrwa-schools.html Records Seized by Israel Show Hamas Presence in U.N. Schools]. ''The New York Times'', Dec. 8, 2024. |
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| | + | [https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-administrators-at-unrwa-schools-were-hamas-fighters-documents-show-nyt/ NYT: Documents show top administrators at UNRWA schools were Hamas fighters]. |
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| | + | By ToI Staff. 9 December 2024. |
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| | + | Terror group’s internal records identify 24 school employees as operatives, half of whom were issued rifles, grenades; one principal was known to wear Hamas fatigues after school. |
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| | + | Some two dozen teachers, counselors and administrators at UNRWA schools in Gaza are members of Hamas or other terror groups, according to a foreign media report published Sunday based on documents provided by Israel. |
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| | + | The materials, seized from terror groups during the ongoing war that began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre, shed further light on Israel’s longstanding contention that the United Nations agency responsible for aid to Palestinians — which administered some 288 schools in the enclave before the war — has fostered radicalism, and been used by terror groups in their efforts against Israel. |
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| | + | The documents viewed by The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/world/middleeast/hamas-unrwa-schools.html] identify 24 employees at 24 different UNRWA schools — the majority of them principals or deputy principals — who are registered members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad; about half of them had documented possession of lethal weaponry, including assault rifles and hand grenades, provided by the terror groups, or participated in their training exercises.</small></blockquote></ref> |
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