UNRWA celebrates bus bombing, Israel does nothing

Arutz Sheva ^ | 25/4/16 | Shimon Cohen

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At a facility in Judea of UNRWA, the UN body tasked with caring for "Palestinian refugees," a festive ceremony was held on Monday honoring Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, the 19-year-old Hamas terrorist who exactly a week ago bombed a bus in southeastern Jerusalem.

Journalist David Bedein, director of the Jerusalem-based Israel Resource News Agency as well as the Center for Near East Policy Research, told Arutz Sheva about the UN event to honor the terrorist who conducted the first bus bombing of the current terror wave, in which he died while wounding 15 victims.

The investigative journalist revealed that Israeli media consciously has been ignoring UNRWA's ties to terrorism, and the Israeli government is culpable as well.

Bedein said he sent a film crew to capture "the festivities for the 'martyr' who fell victim, while encouraging the right of return," in reference to how UNRWA works to keep "Palestinian refugees" from integrating in other countries as opposed to UN policy on all other refugees. UNRWA instead demands all five million descendants of Arabs who left Israel in the 1948 War of Independence be returned.

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This monument, noted the journalist, was paid for by funds that arrived from the German government, and a school at the facility was funded by the US, Canada, Sweden, Australia and other Western nations.

"The central topic of studies there is the right of return in context of the armed struggle," he said, describing terrorist indoctrination at the site.

Bedein said that members of his film crew aren't only documenting the UNRWA festivities celebrating the terrorist Abu Srour, but also are interviewing his family members. The movie they are preparing will soon be screened in front of American Congressmen.

"They are proud that he is a 'martyr,'" the journalist said of the bus bomber's...

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[Eleutheria5]

Promote peace and tolerance. Defund UNRWA today.

[varyouga]

Can’t think of a better place to test a MOAB...