Earlier this month, UN Watch released a report showing the enthusiasm among UNRWA teachers for the Oct 7 atrocities.
The Telegram chat group is meant to support UNRWA teachers, and contains dozens of files with UNRWA staff names, ID numbers, schedules and curriculum materials.
Now, the Biden administration and a number of other countries are pausing UNRWA funding after employees of the UN agency were tied to the Oct 7 attacks.
United Nations Secretary Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday that out of the 12 UNRWA employees implicated, nine had been terminated, one was dead and the identities of the other two were being clarified.
"I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll," a former UNRWA Commissioner General said, "And I don't see that as a crime."
When there was talk of reforming the UNRWA by removing Hamas members from its ranks, the editor of a Hamas paper wrote that, "Laying off the agency employees because of their political affiliation means laying off all the employees of the aid agency, because they are all members of the 'resistance,' in its various forms."
Hamas and UNRWA leadership have occasionally clashed, but the bottom line is that it's impossible for UNRWA to operate without ceding control to Hamas, without employing Hamas members and without allowing them to control day-to-day operations.
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