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‘Incubators Of Hate’: UN Agency ‘Knowingly’ Put Hamas Terrorists In Classrooms, Report Alleges

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The main United Nations (UN) effort to handle aid delivery to the Gaza Strip knowingly put Hamas terrorists into key school leadership positions in the impoverished region, a watchdog organization revealed in a report published Wednesday.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which has been exposed for harboring Hamas terrorists before, knowingly employed several Hamas members in positions of leadership in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, UN Watch found in its report. UNRWA purports to be a neutral entity, but the latest report alleges the organization repeatedly failed to properly terminate multiple Hamas-affiliated leaders in its ranks, and that such actions contradict its stated mission.

“By knowingly employing Hamas terrorist leaders as school principals and teachers, and by allowing terror chiefs to head the unions that oversee thousands of their teachers, UNRWA didn’t just tolerate extremism — the Western-funded UN agency institutionalized it, turning classrooms into incubators of hate,” the report reads. “Over its 75 years of existence, UNRWA has churned out thousands of jihadi terrorists.”

UNRWA did not fire Suhail Al-Hindi from his position as a school principal and head of the Gaza Staff Union, even after he publicly appeared with Hamas terrorists for years, the report alleges. UNRWA also kept Fateh Sharif, leader of the Lebanon Teachers’ Union and a senior Hamas official, on staff in that country.

UNRWA claims to have fired Al-Hindi in 2017, but Al-Hindi himself has said he continued to receive benefits from the organization, according to the report.

“According to one Palestinian source, Al-Hindi was given a choice between ‘resignation and receiving his employee rights, or dismissal’,” the report reads. “It appears that Al-Hindi chose to resign, but that UNRWA represents it as Al-Hindi having been fired since it gave him an ultimatum. In any event, even if one accepts at face value UNRWA’s current stance that Al-Hindi was let go, this would only underscore UNRWA’s complicity with Hamas — by refusing to unequivocally state that Al-Hindi was fired at the time of the event, UNRWA prioritized Hamas’s honor and reputation over the truth.”

Al-Hindi also spoke multiple times regarding an “upcoming battle” before the October 7th massacre, when Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 240 hostages.

“This is a clear message to the enemy: We are preparing, and Allah willing, we are on the cusp of a battle that will be the decisive battle between us and the enemy,” Al-Hindi said on July 2, 2023.

Sharif was in charge of 2,000 teachers and 39,000 students as chief of the UNRWA Lebanon Teachers’ Union, according to the report. After his death in an Israeli airstrike in 2024, Hamas eulogized him as a “Leader of the Hamas movement in Lebanon, and member of its leadership abroad.”

The UN did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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IDF BATTLE VIDEOS: Troops operating in 3 different sectors in Gaza Strip

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IDF spokesperson: IDF forces operate in three sectors at the same time in the Gaza Strip: the Air Force attacked more than 120 terrorist targets in the last day.

The forces of Division 162, including the Givati and 401 brigade combat teams, fighting in eastern Rafah and on the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing, continued to operate during the night against additional terrorist targets.

The battle team of the Givati Brigade launched a targeted brigade attack on Hamas targets in the East Rafah area. During the attack, the forces eliminated a number of terrorists in face-to-face encounters, located weapons and rocket launchers, the weapons were confiscated and the launchers were destroyed.

The fighters of the 401st Brigade’s combat team are raiding the terrorist infrastructure in the area in a targeted manner, and during their activity they destroyed terrorist infrastructure and confiscated weapons found in a school in the area.

The forces of the 98th Division are fighting in the Jabaliya region, where the combat teams of the 7th and 460th Brigades have eliminated a number of terrorists at the end of close range battles.

With the cooperation of the Air Force, many underground infrastructures and fighting areas in the area were destroyed.

In one of the attacks, a military building was destroyed where a group of Hamas terrorists had gathered.

In the Zeyton neighborhood where Division 99 operates, the fighters located weapons and various terrorist infrastructures in the area.

In a raid conducted by the multi-dimensional unit, an ammunition depot was found in the home of a Hamas operative, and in one of the attacks, the forces, in cooperation with the Air Force, killed a sniper who was ambushing fighters in the area.

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Terrorists Launch Attacks on Gaza Pier that the Biden Regime is Building For — Hamas Terrorists

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Biden is building the pier for terrorists. Terrorists launch attacks on Americans building the pier. No pushback. No media coverage.

“The pier is not temporary or about delivering aid, it’s about giving the terrorists a permanent gateway to the world.”

Terrorists Launch Attacks on Americans Building Biden’s Gaza Pier

By: Katie Pavlich | April 25, 2024 7:45 AM

Terrorists operating in the Gaza Strip launched a series of attacks on Americans building President Joe Biden’s “humanitarian pier” this week.

“Gazan terrorists fired mortar shells on Wednesday towards the construction work on the humanitarian pier being built off the coast of Gaza,” i24 News reports. “i24NEWS has learned that several pieces of American engineering equipment were damaged in the attack. In addition, one person was slightly injured while running to a protected area.”
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Biden announced the construction of the pier, being done by the U.S. military, during his State of the Union address in March — prompting serious concerns from lawmakers about U.S. troop safety and lack of sober threat assessment. As a number of Republican Senators wrote to Biden on March 28:

We have strong reservations about your directing the United States military to establish a temporary pier on the Gaza Coast. While we acknowledge that this decision was taken with the consent of the Israeli government, we are concerned that the mission entails a significant risk to U.S. personnel. We are also concerned that this approach fails to address the main causes of the humanitarian crisis.

First, this deployment ignores the most basic cause of Gaza’s humanitarian crisis: the fact that Hamas ignited the current war on October 7 by murdering 1,200 people, including more than 30 Americans, and taking another 240 hostages, including 12 Americans. The conditions for ending the war and the ensuing humanitarian challenges are the same today as they were on October 7: Hamas’ surrender and the return of the approximately 140 remaining hostages, including six Americans.

Second, based on what has been shared with the Senate Armed Services Committee thus far, this decision appears to ignore force protection issues entirely against an enemy that tries to kill Americans every day. We are gravely concerned that the Department of Defense has given too little consideration to the likelihood that Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and other U.S.-designated terrorist organizations operating in Gaza would attempt to attack the U.S. personnel that will be deployed to this mission. Since October 7, Iran-backed proxies, of which Hamas and PIJ are two, have attacked U.S. forces in Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and off the coast of Yemen. Hamas is blatantly indifferent to the humanitarian crisis that its October 7 massacre has wrought, and it is unlikely to be deterred by the humanitarian nature of the U.S. mission to establish a pier off the coast of Gaza.

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IDF says terrorists fired mortar shells at under-construction US-led Gaza aid pier as UN officials toured site

Members of a terror group in the Gaza Strip launched mortars at an under-construction pier for a US-led project to bring aid into the Palestinian enclave yesterday, the military says.

The mortar attack occurred as United Nations officials were touring the site with Israeli troops on the coast of central Gaza, the IDF says in response to a query on the incident.

The IDF says the UN officials were rushed to a shelter by troops amid the attack.

UN officials also confirmed the mortar attack to the Associated Press, saying there were no injuries.

“The terrorist organizations continue to systematically harm humanitarian efforts while risking the lives of UN workers, while Israel allows the supply of aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip,” the IDF adds.

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Biden’s ‘Trojan pier’ for Gaza

Five Americans are still being held hostage by Hamas and President Biden has sent no troops to help them, but in his State of the Union address he promised to send troops to build a pier for Gaza.

The estimated over 1,000 troops will spend as long as two months laboring to build a floating pier in a war zone, under threat of attack, to help transfer aid to the Hamas supporters living in Gaza.

Nothing about this plan makes sense.

The media has taken to falsely claiming that the Arab Muslims occupying parts of Gaza are starving. Vice President Kamala Harris attacked Israel, claiming that she had “seen reports of families eating leaves or animal feed.” Social media videos however show the locals gorging themselves on shawarma and other foods in preparation for Ramadan.

But if the Biden administration really believed that Gazans were starving right now, what would be the purpose of spending two months building a pier to deliver aid? A program with a two-month lead time will not help people who are starving right now. It would be a grim joke.

And the pier plan only gets stranger from there.

According to the administration, there will be no “boots on the ground” constructing the pier, and according to a Pentagon spokesman, “It will not be U.S. military personnel that are transporting the aid off of the causeway into Gaza.” So who has the trucks and capability to actually do it?

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RFK Jr. Comes Out Against Gaza Ceasefire

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Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. strongly questioned the wisdom of a ceasefire in Gaza during an interview with Reuters on Wednesday.

“I don’t even know what that means right now,” Kennedy, who is running as an independent, told Reuters in response to a question about a temporary ceasefire.

Kennedy argued that Hamas had used every previous ceasefire to merely “rebuild and then launch another surprise attack,” the outlet noted.

“So what would be different this time?” Kennedy asked Reuters.

Kennedy argued that Israel had not chosen to fight the current war and blamed Hamas for rejecting a two-state solution and for its history of aggression.

“Any other nation that was adjacent to a neighboring nation that was bombing it with rockets, sending commandos over to murder its citizens, pledging itself to murder every person in that nation and annihilate it, would go and level it with aerial bombardment,” he said. “But Israel is a moral nation. So it didn’t do that. Instead, it built an Iron Dome to protect itself so it would not have to go into Gaza.”

Kennedy told Reuters that the Oct. 7 attack — which killed over 1,200 people and left some 250 as Hamas hostages — left Israel with no other option but to invade Gaza.

“[T]he scale of these attacks means it is likely that Israel will need to wage a sustained military campaign to protect its citizens,” Kennedy tweeted the day of the terrorist attack. “Statements of support are fine, but we must follow through with unwavering, resolute, and practical action. America must stand by our ally throughout this operation and beyond as it exercises its sovereign right to self-defense.”

Kennedy’s rejection of a ceasefire with Hamas puts the ex-Democrat at odds with an increasing number of prominent politicians in his former party.

A group of House Democrats, including Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, introduced a ceasefire resolution on Oct. 16, 2023; Democratic Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley wrote an article backing a ceasefire on Nov. 20; and Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed an “immediate ceasefire” on March 3.

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‘Shredded Into Pieces’: Witnesses Share Graphic Details Of Hamas’ Sexual Violence Against Israeli Women

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A witness to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks shared her account of Hamas’ graphic rape and torture of Israeli women at the Supernova Music Festival, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

Sapir, 24, was at the rave on the morning of the attacks and told Israeli police that after being shot and hiding in a bush, she watched the rape of five women by Hamas terrorists, who often tortured their victims as well, according to the NYT. The woman said one female was raped while being stabbed every time she flinched, another woman was “shredded into pieces” and yet another victim’s breast was cut off with a box cutter before slicing her face.

“One continues to rape her, and the other throws her breast to someone else, and they play with it, throw it, and it falls on the road,” Sapir said.

Sapir said that three other women were raped and that some of the terrorists were carrying around the heads of three more women, according to the NYT. Yura Karol, 22, a friend of Sapir’s also witnessed several of the women being raped and murdered.

Sapir took several photographs, that she showed the police, of where she hid and her injuries and said she thought to herself at the time that she “should remember everything,” according to the NYT.

“That day, I became an animal,” she said. “I was emotionally detached, sharp, just the adrenaline of survival. I looked at all this as if I was photographing them with my eyes, not forgetting any detail. I told myself: I should remember everything.”

Raz Cohen and Shoam Gueta, who were also at the festival, told the NYT that they watched multiple Hamas fighters get out of a van with a naked screaming woman. Gueta said that the men were “giggling” while stabbing their victim and “butchering her.”

“They all gather around her,” Cohen said. “She’s standing up. They start raping her. I saw the men standing in a half circle around her. One penetrates her. She screams. I still remember her voice, screams without words.”

Emergency responders testified to seeing the dead bodies of several women with their pants and underwear down below their knees and that one woman appeared to have had her genital area “sliced open,” according to the NYT. A film compiled by the Israeli military and previously viewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation showed photos of women at the rave missing clothes and legs bent in unnatural positions.

The Israeli military has not publicly stated how many women were sexually assaulted by Hamas on Oct. 7 and is gathering evidence, according to the NYT. However, the police admitted that in the aftermath of the attacks, conducting a thorough investigation of the scenes often did not take place due to the focus on eliminating Hamas.

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Second American Hostage Declared Dead In Gaza

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A second American hostage in the Gaza Strip was confirmed dead on Thursday, according to multiple reports.

Judy Weinstein Haggai, a 70-year-old American-Israeli dual citizen, was confirmed dead on Thursday, roughly a week after her husband, Gadi, was also declared to have died, Israel National News reported. There are approximately six American hostages remaining in Gaza, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Haggai and her husband were walking through Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7 when Hamas terrorists shot them both, leaving them with critical injuries that resulted in their death, according to The Times of Israel. Their bodies remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza.

The two leave behind four children and seven grandchildren, according to The Times of Israel. Judy was an English teacher who worked with special needs children, and Gadi was a musician and retired chef.

“[Judy was] a poet and an entrepreneur who loved to create and was dedicated to working for peace and friendship,” Kibbutz Nir Oz said in a statement on Thursday, according to The Times of Israel.

“[Gadi was] a musician at heart, a gifted flautist, he played in the IDF Orchestra and was involved with music his whole life,” The Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum said in a statement reported on Friday.

Hamas is currently holding about 129 hostages in Gaza, 118 of whom are Israeli citizens or dual citizens, and 23 of whom are believed to be dead in captivity, according to The Wall Street Journal. A previous short-term truce deal between Hamas and Israel allowed for the release of over 100 hostages, but it ended after Hamas broke the terms of the deal.

Getting the remaining hostages out is “going to be a long process,” President Joe Biden said on Dec. 5, according to the WSJ. The U.S. has been working with Israel and Qatar to try and strike another temporary truce agreement with Hamas to allow for the release of the remaining hostages.

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‘We Are At War’: Netanyahu Declares Mass Mobilization Following Massive Surprise Hamas Attack

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Islamist group Hamas launched their biggest attack on Israel in years with 5,000 rockets at daybreak Saturday followed by gunmen attacks, according to the Associated Press (AP).

The surprise assault started with a relentless barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, then gunmen reportedly crossing the border, CNN reported. At least 22 people have died, including a 60-year-old woman, according to the AP. As warning sirens blared across southern and central Israel, including the historic city of Jerusalem, the Israeli military swiftly declared a state of war alert. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened an emergency meeting of top security officials to address the escalating situation.

The first wave of rockets was reportedly unleashed around 6:30 a.m. local time Saturday, when most Israelis would typically be asleep, per CNN. “Over the last hour, the Hamas terrorist organization had begun a massive shooting of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, and terrorists infiltrated into Israeli territory in a number of different locations,” the Israel Defense Forces said.

Hamas‘ military commander, Mohammad Deif, made an announcement to the world as he declared the commencement of the operation called “Al-Aqsa Storm,” per the outlet. Deif’s call echoed far and wide, urging Palestinians everywhere to join the fight as he said, “If you have a gun, get it out. This is the time to use it — get out with trucks, cars, axes, today the best and most honorable history starts.” Deif also added that their group had “targeted the enemy positions, airports and military positions with 5,000 rockets.”

Israeli President Isaac Herzog wrote a statement on X saying, “I wish to offer strength to the commanders and soldiers of the IDF, and to all the security forces and rescue services. I send my encouragement and strength to all the residents of Israel who are under attack.”

Gaza, bordering Irael and Egypt along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, is one of the world most densely populated places, with almost 2 million people filling 140 square miles, according to CNN.

The attack comes on the normally joyous observance of Simchat Torah, when Jews finish the yearly cycle of reading the Torah scroll. It also occurred nearly 50 years to the day when, in 1973, a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, according to the AP.

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