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I have come to dislike snappy one-liner responses in these posts, as well as the quick judgments based on uninformed opinions. Back in January, Brett Stephens, a journalist currently with the New York Times who lived and covered stories in Israel for years, had this to say about UNRWA :
"Last Friday, Israeli officials presented the U.S. government with an intelligence dossier detailing the involvement of 12 UNRWA employees, seven of them schoolteachers, in the massacre of Oct. 7. As reported by The Times’s Ronen Bergman and Patrick Kingsley, the charges range from kidnapping an Israeli woman to storing rocket-propelled grenades to murdering civilians in a kibbutz.
Awful enough — and the U.N. rightly moved swiftly to terminate the employment of nine of those identified by the dossier. But that may be the least of it. “Intelligence estimates shared with the U.S. conclude that around 1,200 of UNRWA’s roughly 12,000 employees in Gaza have links to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and about half have close relatives who belong to the Islamist militant groups,” The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The figures are worth bearing in mind the next time you weigh the credibility of information about Gaza sourced to the U.N. Also worth bearing in mind is that this has been going on for years. As Bassam Eid of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group noted over a decade ago, “In order for UNRWA to survive, they accept [Hamas’s] conditions because they want to continue their activities.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/opinion/unrwa-un-palestine-agency.html
Imagine if we held Israel to the same standard. There’s whole IDF divisions involved in war crimes. There’s tens of thousands of IDF soldiers working with illegal settlers to break international law. If you want the same standard, the IDF should be sanctioned for terrorism and war crimes, and even more so for failing to investigate or discipline those involved despite being caught on video or bragging on social media about their crimes.
Does Hamas try to contact civilians who live in harm's way to leave targeted areas? Nope, that's the IDF.
Oh you mean like Israel contacting civilians in Rafah and telling them to flee to the designated “safe area” in Tal al-Sultan and the bombing the tent city on May 26 without warning and killing dozens in a horrifically brutal manner, beheading babies and burning children alive? That?