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> On 1/29/2024 1:25 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>>> Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
>> Intelligence Reveals Details of U.N. Agency Staff’s Links to Oct. 7 Attack
>> Carrie Keller-Lynn and David Luhnow
>> 8–10 minutes
>>
>> TEL AVIV—At least 12 employees of the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency
>> had connections to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and around 10% of all
>> of its Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups, according to
>> intelligence reports reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
>>
>> Six United Nations Relief and Works Agency workers were part of the wave
>> of Palestinian militants who killed 1,200 people in the deadliest
>> assault on Jews since the Holocaust, according to the intelligence
>> dossier. Two helped kidnap Israelis. Two others were tracked to sites
>> where scores of Israeli civilians were shot and killed. Others
>> coordinated logistics for the assault, including procuring weapons.
>>
>> Of the 12 Unrwa employees with links to the attacks, seven were primary
>> or secondary school teachers, including two math teachers, two Arabic
>> language teachers and one primary school teacher.
>>
>> The information in the intelligence reports—based on what an official
>> described as very sensitive signals intelligence as well as cellphone
>> tracking data, interrogations of captured Hamas fighters and documents
>> recovered from dead militants, among other things—were part of a
>> briefing given by Israel to U.S. officials that led Washington and
>> others to suspend aid to Unrwa.
>>
>> Intelligence estimates shared with the U.S. conclude that around 1,200
>> of Unrwa’s roughly 12,000 employees in Gaza have links to Hamas or
>> Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and about half have close relatives who
>> belong to the Islamist militant groups. Both groups have been designated
>> as terrorist organizations by the U.S. and others. Hamas has run Gaza
>> since a 2007 coup.
>>
>> “Unrwa’s problem is not just ‘a few bad apples’ involved in the October
>> 7 massacre,” said a senior Israeli government official. “The institution
>> as a whole is a haven for Hamas’ radical ideology.”
>>
>> An Unrwa spokesperson on Monday declined to comment, saying an internal
>> U.N. investigation into the agency was under way.
>>
>> Two officials familiar with the intelligence said the Unrwa employees
>> considered to have ties with militant groups were deemed to be
>> “operatives,” indicating they took active part in the organization’s
>> military or political framework. The report said 23% of Unrwa’s male
>> employees had ties to Hamas, a higher percentage than the average of 15%
>> for adult males in Gaza, indicating a higher politicization of the
>> agency than the population at large.
>>
>> Nearly half of all Unrwa employees—an estimated 49%—also had close
>> relatives who also had official ties to the militant groups, especially
>> Hamas, the intelligence reports said.
>>
>> In the aftermath of Oct. 7, as Israel has waged war against Hamas in
>> Gaza, Unrwa has emerged as one of the loudest voices decrying the impact
>> of the fierce fighting on Palestinians in the enclave, where authorities
>> say more than 26,000 people have been killed. Unrwa says at least 152 of
>> its own staff have been killed in the conflict.
>>
>> The agency is also the main pillar of operations to move food aid,
>> medicine and other humanitarian supplies into Gaza.
>>
>> The vast majority of Unrwa’s 30,000 staff across the Middle East are
>> Palestinian, and Israel and some in the U.S. have long accused it of
>> nurturing anti-Israeli sentiment in crowded refugee camps that have been
>> important recruiting grounds for militant groups, including Hamas.
>>
>> The Trump administration suspended funding for Unrwa in 2018, saying the
>> agency’s mission was fundamentally misguided. The Biden administration
>> renewed funding in 2021.
>>
>> The Oct. 7 intelligence reports seen by the Journal identified an Unrwa
>> Arabic teacher who the reports said was also a Hamas militant commander
>> and took part in a terrorist attack on Kibbutz Be’eri, where 97 people
>> were killed and about 26 people were kidnapped and taken as hostages to
>> Gaza.
>>
>> Another Unrwa employee, described in the dossier as an Unrwa social
>> worker, played a role in absconding with the body of a dead Israeli
>> soldier, which was taken to Gaza, the reports said. He also coordinated
>> trucks and munitions distributions for Hamas before being killed.
>>
>> A person familiar with the dossier said that after U.S. officials were
>> briefed on the intelligence material, they alerted Unrwa, which put out
>> a statement announcing the allegation that some of its employees were
>> linked to the attacks and saying it had fired the employees involved. It
>> provided no details, and didn’t say how many employees were involved.
>>
>> On Sunday, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said he was
>> personally horrified by the allegations.
>>
>> Unrwa commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini criticized Western nations
>> for pausing aid at a time when Gaza is facing a humanitarian crisis as
>> the war between Hamas and Israel rages. Guterres also implored nations
>> to not suspend humanitarian aid.
>>
>> It is “immensely irresponsible to sanction an agency and an entire
>> community it serves because of allegations of criminal acts against some
>> individuals,” Lazzarini said.
>>
>> Unrwa looks after more than 5 million Palestinians in densely-packed
>> refugee neighborhoods across the Middle East, including the West Bank,
>> Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. But its biggest operations are in Gaza, where
>> it looks after an estimated 80% of the local population and runs
>> hundreds of schools and scores of clinics.
>>
>> Israel says it has documented deepening ties between Unrwa and Hamas
>> since the militant group cemented its hold on Gaza in 2007. Unrwa has
>> admitted to finding Hamas weapons stored in schools and Israel has
>> repeatedly said Hamas tunnels run under and through Unrwa buildings as
>> well as other civilian facilities. The former head of Unrwa’s union in
>> Gaza was fired in 2017 after Israel found out he had been elected to
>> Hamas’ top political leadership.
>>
>> The dossier is the most detailed look yet at the widespread links
>> between the Unrwa employees and militants. It offers telling details
>> regarding the events of Oct. 7.
>>
>> A math teacher belonging to Hamas was close enough to a female hostage
>> in Gaza that he took a picture of her. Another teacher was carrying an
>> antitank missile the night before the invasion.
>>
>> One Unrwa employee set up an operations room for Palestinian Islamic
>> Jihad on Oct. 8, the day after the attack. Three other employees,
>> including another Arabic teacher at an Unrwa school, received a text
>> from Hamas to arm themselves at a staging area close to the border the
>> night before the attack. It was unclear whether they went.
>>
>> A different elementary school teacher did cross into Israel and went to
>> Reim, a district where a kibbutz, an army base and a music festival were
>> attacked.
>>
>> One of the intelligence reports seen by the Journal said a 13th Unrwa
>> employee, who didn’t have a discernible affiliation with a terror group,
>> also entered Israel. Hundreds of Gazan civilians flooded across the
>> border as part of the Hamas-led attack, Israel says.
>>
>> Teachers make up nearly three-quarters of Unrwa’s Gaza-based local
>> staff. Unrwa schools, which use textbooks approved by the Palestinian
>> Authority, have come under fire for using materials that allegedly
>> glorify terrorists and promote hatred of Israel. Unrwa says it has taken
>> steps to address problematic content, but a 2019 U.S. Government
>> Accountability Office report said that measures haven’t always been
>> implemented.
>>
>> Since Oct. 7, Hamas has stolen more than $1 million worth of Unrwa
>> supplies, including fuel and trucks, according to the intelligence
>> report. The intelligence assessment alleges that Hamas operatives are so
>> deeply enmeshed within the Unrwa aid-delivery enterprise as to
>> coordinate transfers for the organization.
>>
>> Write to David Luhnow at david.luhnow-at-wsj.com
>>
>> Corrections & Amplifications
>> The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, known as Unrwa, was
>> incorrectly referred to as Unwra in one instance in an earlier version
>> of this article. (Corrected on Jan. 29)
>>
>>
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