Re:Details Emerge on U.N. Workers Accused of Aiding Hamas Raid
by jevoten on Monday January 29, 2024 @06:50AM
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Allegedly 12 of the 13,000 UNRWA employees were involved in the attack. How many other organizations lose all funding if 0.1% of their employees, in their spare time, commit some terrorism equivalent act?
Any aid organization would have to be impossibly cautious in hiring in Gaza, and still they could fail such a stringent standard.
Re:Details Emerge on U.N. Workers Accused of Aiding Hamas Raid
by weatherlite on Monday January 29, 2024 @08:00AM
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The 12 is the ones who were verified. No one really knows the identity of everyone who participated on October 7th - the majority of them went back to Gaza alive.
If you add the fact of repeated allegations that UNRWA allows incitement against Jews in its schoolbooks and that its telegram group of 3000 members celebrated the massacre then yeah, it's not looking good I think.
Re:Details Emerge on U.N. Workers Accused of Aiding Hamas Raid
by smoothjazz on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:42AM
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The IDF has committed way more terrorism than Hamas yet we still support and fund Israel. Israel has all of Gaza under blockade and UNRWA were responsible for delivering basic goods. This is yet another act to cause mass death and destruction to Palestinians.
Re:Details Emerge on U.N. Workers Accused of Aiding Hamas Raid
by jevoten on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:49AM
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The article is paywalled, but what I can read of it refutes your claims. It states that, according to (presumably Israeli) intelligence: around 10% of all of its Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups
10% is a lot less than most, and that's the very broad category of "ties to militant groups", not actual Hamas members. What qualifies as a "tie"? Being related to or knowing someone in Hamas, or having to deal with them, given that they operate in Hamas territory? And "Islamist militant group" is a much broader category than just Hamas.
For example NFAC [1] is a militant group, yet it has committed negligible violence (allegedly only by ex-members, not current ones). Are they including NFAC-equivalent groups under "Islamist militants"?
Re:Details Emerge on U.N. Workers Accused of Aiding Hamas Raid
by smoothjazz on Monday January 29, 2024 @09:40AM
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Why are countries suspending funds to UNRWA yet continuing to give funds and support to Israel even though they've committed 1000x the atrocities of Hamas?
Any aid organization would have to be impossibly cautious in hiring in Gaza, and still they could fail such a stringent standard.
If you add the fact of repeated allegations that UNRWA allows incitement against Jews in its schoolbooks and that its telegram group of 3000 members celebrated the massacre then yeah, it's not looking good I think.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-781531
10% is a lot less than most, and that's the very broad category of "ties to militant groups", not actual Hamas members. What qualifies as a "tie"? Being related to or knowing someone in Hamas, or having to deal with them, given that they operate in Hamas territory? And "Islamist militant group" is a much broader category than just Hamas.
For example NFAC [1] is a militant group, yet it has committed negligible violence (allegedly only by ex-members, not current ones). Are they including NFAC-equivalent groups under "Islamist militants"?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Fucking_Around_Coalition
It seems there will be news and more details for long.
We are not talking about startups here. This is terrorism. Most probably more information will appear soon.