‘UNRWA helped Hamas kill our children’: Hostage’s mother demands UN accountability
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‘UNRWA helped Hamas kill our children’: Hostage’s mother demands UN accountability
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h1yn8okoke
Posted by Cannot-Forget
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Ayelet Samerano, the mother of Yonatan Samerano, confronted the United Nations Human Rights Council, accusing the UN and its agency, UNRWA, of complicity in the October 7 Hamas-led attack.
She detailed how **her son, a 21 year-old Israeli, was shot and then kidnapped by an UNRWA social worker**.
She directly refuted claims that UNRWA was “under attack,” asserting instead that UNRWA was the attacker.
Among the cases she mentioned where UNRWA employees actively participated in Hamas-led atrocities:
* An UNRWA “Social worker” kidnapped her son after he was shot.
* An UNRWA teacher held 84-year-old Ditza Heiman captive.
* Emily Damari, another former hostage, was held in an UNRWA facility (While not receiving medical care there as well).
She condemned the UN’s failure to recognize Israeli victims while lamenting the deaths of UNRWA staff, questioning whether this included the UNRWA worker who kidnapped her son. Her speech criticized the UN for protecting UNRWA employees instead of holding them accountable for their direct role in the attack.
Ayelet has been a vocal critic of UNRWA, confronting its Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on multiple occasions and accusing him of silence and complicity in her son’s kidnapping.
She is still fighting for the return of her son’s body at this moment.
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All the cases she mentions seem to be cases of Gazans hired by UNRWA taking part in the atrocity, right? I wonder who from UNRWA itself is sent to work there on the ground and how they handle hiring. I understand UNRWA wants to distance themselves from all of this, but there are important questions to ask about how this happened.
From everything I’ve read, what she’s saying here about the complicity of UNRWA staff in terrorism is true. To say nothing of the agency’s role in radicalizing generation after generation of Palestinian, and their broader material support for Hamas by essentially carrying out many of the roles of the state on its behalf.
No one has been able to justify to me in non-partisan terms why UNRWA even exists, and why it should continue existing, and why Palestinians alone should be granted a special definition of the word “refugee” which distorts its meaning in plain English (making the status inheritable) and which applies to no other refugee group in human history. Actual refugees (which, since October 7, most of the population of Gaza actually NOW are) from any other ethnic group and context on the planet are provided aid through the UNHRC. The only justification I have seen for why Palestinians are handled so differently is that this is the way it has been done for 70+ years. That is insufficient for such a questionably effective and deeply compromised organization to justify its continued existence.
A case action against the UN would be fun.
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