Gazans are preparing for public protests against Hamas on June 26th in what is being touted as a grassroots "revolution" against the terror group.
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) fired 70 staff members working in Gaza after long-standing claims from Israeli authorities that the agency is a collaborator with the Hamas terrorist group.
"Today, the Commissioner-General ad interim of UNRWA, Christian Saunders, took the decision to terminate the employment of 70 UNRWA staff members in Gaza with immediate effect," UNRWA wrote in a Friday statement.
UNRWA insisted its decision was not an admission of guilt, but one taken "to mitigate safety and security risks for the refugees the Agency serves under its mandate and for UNRWA personnel and premises."
The agency claims it has "repeatedly asked the Israeli authorities to provide information and evidence to substantiate allegations against individual UNRWA staff members in Gaza but has received no response to date."
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"The dismissal of the staff is not part of a disciplinary process and does not constitute in any way a validation of the claims made against them," the UNRWA statement read.
The firings follow a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) investigation that referred more than 100 UNRWA staff members for suspension or dismissal.
USAID's investigation, the results of which the agency published June 5, assessed that a number of UNRWA's employees were deeply enmeshed in Hamas' civil society and military operations.
The investigation results included mention of "a deputy school principal serving as an al-Qassam deputy company commander in the Ain Gallout/5th infantry battalion, a deputy school principal serving as squad leader for the Khan Younis Brigade/2nd infantry battalion" and "a teacher with expertise as a sniper for Hamas."
The investigation also found numerous school teachers and principals it claimed to have participated directly in Hamas' Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.
Israeli authorities have long charged UNRWA with being directly tied to Hamas.
"Since October 7, evidence of numerous incidents of Hamas exploiting UNRWA infrastructure and UNRWA employees being involved in terrorist activity has been exposed. Civilians in Gaza have even stated that UNRWA is Hamas," the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) wrote in a January web post.
Additionally, the IDF claimed, citing intelligence findings, that "among the 12,521 UNRWA employees in the Gaza Strip, at least 1,462 (12%) are members of Hamas or other designated terrorist organizations."
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Israel's Foreign Ministry pushed back on UNRWA's defense framing and claims that Israel had not supplied evidence of employee-Hamas collaboration.
"UNRWA's statement on the termination of 70 employees, while blaming the victim, Israel, and without even mentioning the word 'Hamas,' is a cynical cover-up," the ministry wrote in a statement shared on X.
"The responsibility to purge terrorism lies solely with the UN, yet Hamas membership remains simply acceptable within UNRWA's ranks. By harboring terrorists and letting its facilities serve as Hamas headquarters, UNRWA has become an arm of Hamas," the statement concluded.
UNRWA, for its part, denies being an active collaborator with Hamas, but insists working with the group is an operational necessity for distributing aid in Gaza.
"UNRWA, similar to other United Nations entities, does not have police or intelligence capacities and must rely on the cooperation and assistance of Member States, including the State of Israel as the Occupying Power, to protect its operations and neutrality amid high risks in the Occupied Palestinian Territory," the agency wrote in its Friday statement.
In April, UNRWA's Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) announced the results of an investigation into 19 employees accused of participating in Oct. 7. UNRWA terminated 12 of the employees in January. Of the remaining seven cases, UNRWA had dismissed one, citing a lack of evidence. The remaining six cases were still under investigation as of April, according to the agency.
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President Donald Trump's administration weighed levying terrorism-related sanctions against UNRWA in December.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also referred to UNRWA as "a subsidiary of Hamas."
Fox News Digital contacted UNRWA and a spokesperson for the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations but did not immediately receive a response.
El vídeo del pequeño Ayoub Junaid llorando porque sus gafas se han roto acumula más de 50 millones de visualizaciones. Este niño palestino de apenas siete años, desplazado en la franja de Gaza, tiene una grave discapacidad visual y necesita de gafas especiales. En uno de los vídeos que compartió su madre, Eman Junaid, ella escribe: “Mi hijo se cayó mientras caminaba y sus gafas se han roto. Él no puede ver sin ellas. Por favor, ayúdenme”. En las imágenes se ve al pequeño Ayoub con un parche negro sobre el ojo izquierdo. “Ayúdenme a ver, quiero ver cómo los otros niños”, pide.
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La Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Genocidio aprobada en 1948 especifica cinco actos que constituyen este crimen cuando se cometen con la intención de destruir, totalmente o en parte, a un grupo. Los dos primeros abarcan los asesinatos en masa y los daños físicos o mentales de gravedad. El cuarto y el quinto tienen que ver con la interrupción de la continuidad biológica de un grupo. La tercera consideración (…) prohíbe “imponer deliberadamente al grupo unas condiciones de vida calculadas para provocar su destrucción física”. Es decir, las formas indirectas de matar, que no golpean frontalmente a los seres humanos, sino el entorno en el que viven. Para que las “condiciones de vida” sean adecuadas hacen falta edificios, hospitales, infraestructuras sociales, redes de alcantarillado y de suministro de agua, la red eléctrica y la agricultura. La destrucción o degradación intencionada de esas estructuras disminuye la capacidad de sobrevivir de una población y, por consiguiente, es una forma de aniquilación lenta y tortuosa.
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The hearing at Israel’s Supreme Court is closed to the public. It is clear to everyone that the imprisonment of Hussam Abu Safiya (held without charges and on the basis of secret accusations that even his lawyer does not know) has perhaps generated the most international mobilization, with calls for his release from the World Health Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Amnesty International. He is the pediatrician who ran Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital and became a vocal critic of the Israeli invasion until troops arrested him in December 2024. He was seized inside the hospital, the only one still operating in the northern Gaza Strip.
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La vista, en el Tribunal Supremo de Israel, es a puerta cerrada. A nadie se le escapa que el encarcelamiento de Hussam Abu Safiya (sin cargos y en base a acusaciones secretas que ni siquiera su abogado conoce) es, quizás, el que más movilización internacional ha generado, con peticiones de liberación de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, el Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja o Amnistía Internacional. Es el pediatra que dirigía el hospital Kamal Adwan de Gaza y que se erigió en voz de denuncia de la invasión israelí, hasta que las tropas lo arrestaron en diciembre de 2024. Lo apresaron dentro del hospital, el único que seguía funcionando en el norte de la Franja.
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The National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) is facing intense backlash after it was revealed that a policy paper it promoted contained what critics say are "antisemitic lies," while also facing accusations that the organization is "infiltrated or controlled by Islamists."
This latest embarrassment for British police authorities comes as the government continues to face criticism for alleged two-tier policing, especially when it comes to anti-Israel and pro-British protests.
The paper from the organization, titled "From Past Prejudices to Present Policies: Confronting Anti-Muslim Hatred and Promoting Human Rights," was recently unearthed by The Spectator.
In it, then-NAMP Vice President Khaldoun Kabbani refers to Zionism as "a narrow, nationalist, and colonialist viewpoint that fosters anti-Muslim hatred, among other forms of xenophobia, distancing itself from the inclusive and compassionate teachings of Judaism."
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In addition to calling the IDF a Zionist terrorist group, the paper surmises that "eventually" the IDF’s actions following Oct. 7 "will be recognized as terrorism, though likely without any reference to the Jewish faith." The report appeared to be deleted from the web, though it continues to be hosted online through an archive at the Wayback Machine.
Andrew Fox, senior associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital that the paper is filled with "antisemitic lies and blood libels."
Kabbani’s paper calls for "dismantling myths through education," but he presents unsourced facts about Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.
In one segment, Kabbani notes that "as the hostilities commenced, reports in Israeli and Western media outlets began circulating alarming and unverified stories about acts of violence by Hamas, including claims of beheadings and assaults. These reports have significantly contributed to increasing hatred towards Islam."
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Dr. Chen Kugel, head of the National Center for Forensic Medicine in Israel, told the themedialine in Nov 2023 that many of the burned bodies of Oct. 7 victims, including those of babies, are "without heads." He admitted it was "difficult to ascertain whether they were decapitated before or after death, as well as how they were beheaded."
Kabbani also said that reports of 120 children being killed by Hamas "have been challenged by more recent disclosures indicating that not a single Israeli infant was a casualty during the said attacks. It was later confirmed that only one child’s death occurred two days following the attack, with circumstances involving IDF gunfire and lacking precise details."
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Contrary to its report, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has stated that at least 29 of the fatalities from Oct. 7 whose ages had been provided by Oct. 25 were children.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism’s Director of Investigations and Enforcement, Stephen Silverman, said in a public statement that the NAMP paper is "evidence that a major national policing association has been infiltrated by or is controlled by Islamists." Silverman called for those "responsible for publishing this extremist screed" to be "immediately investigated by their respective forces’ professional standards departments and dismissed."
The National Police Chiefs’ Council did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions about whether they were concerned by the NAMP’s paper, whether it would take action in reference to it, and whether its statements were problematic for public trust.
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Fox News Digital also received no response from NAMP or the British government.
Noting the "skyrocketing antisemitism" in the United Kingdom, Fox said that the NAMP’s policy paper is "grossly inappropriate." He said that "whilst it is important that minority groups have dialogue with the police to ensure their issues are considered, divisive internal organizations, such as a group for Muslim officers, are clearly counterproductive to public trust. This practice should be clamped down on immediately and no police force should engage with this organization going forward."
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O Governo grego alertou que o Hamas pode estar a planear atentados na Europa, após detenção de palestiniano em Creta que confessou preparativos para ataques terroristas contra alvos israelitas, representando alegada mudança estratégica do grupo.
Greece’s Minister for Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, has warned of a highly concerning “strategic shift” by Hamas, suggesting the organization may be expanding its operations into Europe following the arrest of a suspected operative on Crete.
In an interview with radio station Parapolitika 90.1, Chrysochoidis pointed out that for the forty years since its founding, Hamas has traditionally restricted its violent activities to Israeli territory without causing external disruption. The potential establishment of European networks marks a dangerous departure from that history.
“This is precisely what concerns us greatly—that it constitutes a strategic shift by Hamas,” Chrysochoidis said, emphasizing the need for constant, continent-wide vigilance. “We need to see exactly what this means and understand the potential scope of such a danger, such a threat.” The Minister also firmly rejected the idea that European security forces are dealing with isolated actors. When asked if recent threats could be classified as “lone wolf” actions, Chrysochoidis called the term unfortunate.
“No one can carry out an action on their own; it requires extensive preparation, extensive training,” he explained. “Let’s abandon these images of the lone wolf and focus on efforts carried out by organizations or through coordinated campaigns aimed at striking specific targets.”
The Minister’s warnings come in the wake of a major counter-terrorism operation in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, where a 37-year-old Palestinian man was arrested for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks against Israeli interests using improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
The suspect was escorted to court under heavy security measures to face both felony and misdemeanor charges. Appearing before the prosecutor and the examining magistrate without legal representation, he was granted a deadline until Thursday, June 11 to formalize his statement. According to judicial authorities, the 37-year-old is being prosecuted for:
Greek authorities are now working to determine the extent of the suspect’s connections and whether he is tied to broader cells operating across other European countries.
Related: Greece Revokes Asylum of Palestinian Over Ties to October 7 Attacks
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