United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) employees hold a U.N. flag stained with red paint
during a protest in the West Bank city of Hebron against Israel's offensive in Gaza January 12, 2009.
Posted on 01/07/2009 8:57:19 AM PST by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) An IDF investigation has found that Hamas fired mortars from the UNRWA school which was hit by an IDF bomb Tuesday.
After the terrorists fired mortar shells from the school in Jebaliya , the IDF retaliated, killing Hamas terrorists as well as civilian adults and children who were used as human shields.
At least 30 were killed by the IDF bombing.
Proof has also emerged that the school was being used to store weapons. Secondary explosions were witnessed following the primary explosion from IDF fire.
UNRWA is the United Nations' Relief Works Agency.
So, the United Nations’ Relief Works Agency was complicit................
imho, the UN is against Israel. allowing Hamas to use their building is more proof.
Indeed.
here’s the problem
the left wing media and the loons who put down Israel do not see the facts, they just see Israel killing people for no reason .
Of course we all know that Hamas has been firing rockets into Israel every day killing or targeting innocents and Israel had no option but the BBC will not report this in depth
What else is new!:
But by far the largest aid program for the PLO can be found in the United Nations, which is funded primarily by the United States. During the 1948 war that established the nation of Israel, some half a million palestinian Arabs panicked and fled to surrounding areas.[137] Rather than allow them to resettle, the United Nations set up its Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to maintain these refugees in special camps as welfare dependents. These dozens of camps, in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and the West Bank and Gaza, remain under UNRWA administration to this very day. The UNRWA has spent billions of dollars, mostly from the United States, supposedly on such humanitarian projects as education, medicine, welfare, and other basic services, as well as to hire some 17,000 local palestinians to operate the program.[138]
In reality, the palestinians on staff have largely been PLO members who have seized control of the UNRWA. Much of this was discovered when the Israelis drove the PLO out of Lebanon in 1982. The refugee camps, and the schools and hospitals in particular, had been transformed into military bases containing vast stores of weapons. All U.N. schools indoctrinated palestinian youth in revolutionary PLO ideology, and some had even become terrorist training centers complete with weapons, uniforms, and modern technology. The UNRWA published various propaganda materials on behalf of the PLO, and some evidence indicated that the agency had secretly funneled money directly into PLO terrorist operations.[139] In 1977, one PLO official told an undercover reporter that the UNRWA budget, then about $200 million per year, constituted almost the entire income for the PLO.[140] Although estimates of the PLO budget vary widely, UNRWA spending may now pay for about half of all PLO activities.[141]
Since the 1970s, other U.N. agencies have also provided their resources to the PLO or its front groups in the West Bank and Gaza. These include the International Labor Organization, the World Health Organization, UNESCO, the U.N. Development Program, and about a dozen other agencies. The PLO helps direct the spending of these programs, and its members are trained on U.N. grants. Many U.N. agencies produce PLO propaganda materials, or host forums for PLO spokesmen. But most importantly, these agencies have been funding the growing PLO infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza, which now organizes and sustains the intifada.[142]
The United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL), a peacekeeping force that operated from 1978 to 1982, was a spectacular example of U.N. collaboration with the PLO. UNIFIL ignored the formation of PLO military and terrorist bases in the “demilitarized” zone, allowed armed PLO units nearly unhindered movement, and refused to stop brazen terrorist attacks. UNIFIL provided supplies, including sophisticated communications equipment, to the PLO, and gave the PLO intelligence reports on Israeli military positions. Some UNIFIL troops were even caught smuggling explosives into Israel for terrorist purposes. Israel was finally forced to invade when the PLO began conducting attacks from within UNIFIL territory, sometimes even under the U.N. flag.[143]
It is little wonder that Yasir Arafat and other PLO leaders, and the Soviet Union, have since 1990 called for U.N. peacekeeping troops to protect a new PLO state in the West Bank and Gaza.[144] The Clinton administration has recently joined this chorus, and the Rabin government of Israel is preparing to give in.[145]
Can’t Israel launch an attack on UN headquarters on the East River as a result of the UN being terrorist enablers?
and that suprises who?
They are either complicit or stupid and blind, weapons positions near UN facilities seems to be common practice. http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=2004
Nor will ABCNNBCBS, the Compost, the Slimes, The Journal & Constipation...
Those UN aid organizations provide lots of employment in Gaza and Palis pretty run them. Not the buffoons in UN HQ in New York
And yet the traitorous Kadima-Labour junta running Israel want peacekeepers in Gaza.
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