There are 13,000 UNRWA employees in Gaza. We already know, thanks to the relentless investigations conducted by Hillel Neuer of UN Watch, that some of those UNRWA members joined Hamas operatives on October 7, taking part in the atrocities inflicted that day, joining in the fun of rape, torture, and murder of Israeli men, women, and children. Other UNRWA members in Gaza have subsequently expressed support for Hamas’ actions. UNRWA schools still use textbooks full of antisemitic passages. UNRWA’s European and American donors have repeatedly demanded that such material be excised from the schoolbooks; UNRWA solemnly promises that it will comply, and then never does, and the farce continues. UNRWA never objects when Hamas hides its rocket launchers and weapons in UNRWA schools and other facilities. Some Palestinians working for UNRWA may be afraid to raise that issue with the agency, but many more approve of aiding and abetting the terror group. Unlike Palestinians, the Europeans who head UNRWA need not fear reprisals from Hamas if they were to demand that it remove its weapons and fighters from UNRWA schools. They have chosen not to do so; worse still, some of them have denied that Hamas hides weapons in those schools, when everyone in Gaza knows the truth.
