2023 Israel-Palestine Armed Conflict

[AgendaPoster]

And yet there's plenty of video and pictures of them faking dead children. I'm not sure why healthy skepticism is so strange when such propaganda has been commonplace even before the conflict.

What healthy skepticism do you hold towards Jews, Israel and IDF statements?

 

[Screamer_2]

And yet there's plenty of video and pictures of them faking dead children. I'm not sure why healthy skepticism is so strange when such propaganda has been commonplace even before the conflict.

There also needs to be healthy skepticism when people are claiming footage is of Palestinians faking footage. There's been plenty of footage not from this conflict which has falsely been claimed and spread on social media of them faking footage. Even plenty of real footage claimed to be fake.

I will still circle back to, 15,000 people have been slaughtered so far. That number will most likely sharply increase soon. They don't need to be faking. The fake footage narrative seems to be nothing more than trying to downplay the on going massacre. There's so much horrific footage, so many deaths. I don't see the point they would need to fake. Even if some footage was, does that change the fact this is another, "never again" moment in history?

I also get the hunch the same people going, "fake footage" are probably the same people that pointed to the fake footage from Syria and went, "real." Let's smell a backpack, smells like chemical weapons to me. Probably sharing footage they claimed was real from that, now saying it's fake from Gaza.

 

[ExsanguinateHorizon]

Not saying what is and isn't fake, but it's not likely anyone here is an actual trained expert in decomposition or related fields of study so arguing about it seems kind of pointless. Rotting bodies do strange things, intestines can go through peristaltic motions for quite a while outside of a dead body for instance. While it's fine to be suspicious about the context of evidence, Hama or IDF probably aren't going through the effort of making realistic props to sway public opinion when there's plenty of real corpses they can use for propaganda.

 

[pistolwhipped]

Something like 8000 dead kids, they don't need to be making fake latex kids. There are plenty of dead kids for them to film. Pretending otherwise is just people being being dumb and asshole.

8,000 dead kids? Does that number happen to come from the same mathematicians who counted 500 corpses 10 minutes after an Israeli strike on a hospital that never happened, in a war zone during a humanitarian crisis with no internet?

 

[Just_Somebody]

What healthy skepticism do you hold towards Jews, Israel and IDF statements?

Skepticism of Jews? Plenty. Lots of Canadian and US Jewish journoscum activists, and politicians out there who are lying, manipulating dumbasses. Not sure if you meant Israelis instead of Jews here.

Israel? I 100% think they're annexing chunks of Gaza after this. They aren't going back to status quo ante bellum with Gaza being free of any Israeli presence. They can make wishy washy statements about the future of Gaza but I'm expecting Netanyahu City where Gaza City used to be in 50 years.

The IDF? Haven't really followed their statements beyond who they bombed and where they're at. I'm skeptical as to how they're sure they killed so and so in some specific bombing.

They don't need to be faking. The fake footage narrative seems to be nothing more than trying to downplay the on going massacre. There's so much horrific footage, so many deaths. I don't see the point they would need to fake. Even if some footage was, does that change the fact this is another, "never again" moment in history?

Hey, totally fine with having skepticism of those claiming imagery or video footage is fake or staged too. Nothing wrong with that. This conflict has bullshit upon lies upon bullshit.

Even if they don't need to be faking, they're still faking. The hospital "bombing" from a month ago somehow had 500+ dead (and some went to 800+), with a press conference with a fuckton of body bags at a totally bombed hospital an hour or two after it was destroyed.....right until we got good pictures of the bomb site the next morning.

I'm sure the Gazan Health Ministry could do something about each person in those body bags (that aren't Hamas members). There is no doubt genuine human tragedy happening in this war. But saying 500+ dead when the IDF bombs a hospital is more of a propaganda win then "two dead on the corner of Jihad Avenue and Derka Derka Street when an apartment was bombed".

That body might be real, or might not be. What honestly doesn't help is playing with a dead corpse like that, which makes it come off less as a tragedy, and more of a prop for some propaganda piece. Honestly, I'd have more respect if it is a prop because playing with the body of a dead child is fucked up.

 

[Marvin]

Oakland can't even get a ceasefire in Oakland

Lol fuck if they try this in Baltimore imma steal this line.

 

[AgendaPoster]

Skepticism of Jews? Plenty. Lots of Canadian and US Jewish journoscum activists, and politicians out there who are lying, manipulating dumbasses. Not sure if you meant Israelis instead of Jews here.

Israel? I 100% think they're annexing chunks of Gaza after this. They aren't going back to status quo ante bellum with Gaza being free of any Israeli presence. They can make wishy washy statements about the future of Gaza but I'm expecting Netanyahu City where Gaza City used to be in 50 years.

The IDF? Haven't really followed their statements beyond who they bombed and where they're at. I'm skeptical as to how they're sure they killed so and so in some specific bombing.

That's not skepticism.
That's disagreeing with people that go against the narrative, like "kapos" such as Finkelstein, Greenwald or Gideon Levy. It's likely you can't stand Jews that are anti-Zionist.
Israel made countless propagandistic statements through its politicians, including claiming more victims and revising later, making up the unproven 40 babies story, putting an immense amount of propaganda around that specific hospital bombing, Torah quotations to justify genocide and the list is far too extensive.
The IDF has tirelessly spammed xShitter with propaganda too, like evil terrorists vs uWu civilians narratives, exaggerating about how scary the rocket attacks are, presenting themselves as fighters for democracy while their opponents are murderous savage animals, and far, far more - almost every tweet is propaganda.
TL;DR - zero skepticism from you when it comes to official narrative
The only time you thread regulars moaned about Israel and IDF was because of the temporary cease fire.
That is FINE
You're team Jewish
That is acceptable.
But do NOT dare expect skepticism from others when you offer none of yours.

 

[clipartfan92]

If you to have a scary thought, imagine Kamala Harris meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, King Abdullah of Jordan, President Mohammed bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates, and the emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

That's not skepticism.
That's disagreeing with people that go against the narrative, like "kapos" such as Finkelstein, Greenwald or Gideon Levy. It's likely you can't stand Jews that are anti-Zionist.
Israel made countless propagandistic statements through its politicians, including claiming more victims and revising later, making up the unproven 40 babies story, putting an immense amount of propaganda around that specific hospital bombing, Torah quotations to justify genocide and the list is far too extensive.
The IDF has tirelessly spammed xShitter with propaganda too, like evil terrorists vs uWu civilians narratives, exaggerating about how scary the rocket attacks are, presenting themselves as fighters for democracy while their opponents are murderous savage animals, and far, far more - almost every tweet is propaganda.
TL;DR - zero skepticism from you when it comes to official narrative
The only time you thread regulars moaned about Israel and IDF was because of the temporary cease fire.
That is FINE
You're team Jewish
That is acceptable.
But do NOT dare expect skepticism from others when you offer none of yours.

says the guy who expressed no skepticism towards hamas claims

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

and kids throw rocks at Israeli soldiers practically every day.

Do you know how much bullshit niggers throw at US police officers every day? I remember how every kike supported BLM and how they'd all come out of the fucking woodwork if another ape got shot. These kikes deserve to live under the same bullshit restrictions they've had the US under the last century. "But we have to give billions in aid to an ungrateful minority group that's responsible for all of the crime!" CRY ME A FUCKING RIVER JEW

Hamas is a Ponzi scheme of a "government" that pockets aid money and leaves their own citizens to rot.

no one in any major city in the US could possibly know what thats like.

Does that number happen to come from the same mathematicians who counted 500 corpses 10 minutes after an Israeli strike on a hospital that never happened, in a war zone during a humanitarian crisis with no internet?

You think thats bad let me tell you about how long it takes to cremate a body. HEY I WONDER WHICH RELIGIOUS GROUP FIRST PLAYED THE BULLSHIT NUMBERS GAME?

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

So there's supposedly this video of a child corpse being examined in Gaza. To me, this just looks like a latex prop, but some of you may be squeamish enough, so be warned. I don't get how a child can be so blown apart yet so in-tact while also looking like he's rotting yet nothing is falling off of him and being so limp in some areas but stiff in others and his skin is perfectly pristine in areas in a really unnatural way. Also his organs are bouncing around yet they'd probably be dried up and stiff at this point. Pallywood's prop department working overtime.
For whatever reason, KF is not recognizing this MP4 file as a video, so I've linked a Streamable link that will expire in 2 days and I'll try attaching the video and seeing what happens.

Spoiler: "Child Corpse"

What do you guys think?
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I'm a regular participant in the watch people die thread. That's real.

 

[Just_Somebody]

That's not skepticism.
That's disagreeing with people that go against the narrative, like "kapos" such as Finkelstein, Greenwald or Gideon Levy. It's likely you can't stand Jews that are anti-Zionist.

So skepticism is when I believe people you like to believe? Am I allowed to be skeptical of, say, Finkelstein? Or is he immune from criticism and skepticism because he's a skeptic?

Israel made countless propagandistic statements through its politicians, including claiming more victims and revising later, making up the unproven 40 babies story, putting an immense amount of propaganda around that specific hospital bombing, Torah quotations to justify genocide and the list is far too extensive.

Pretty sure the "more victims then revised later" came with bodies being identified properly. Going from 1400 to 1200.

Hell, for example, the 9-11 death total was lowered by 40 in 2003, two years after the attack. I remember the early death toll from 9-11 being over 3000, especially in 2001, but it was gradually reduced until was finalized as 2977

https://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/10/29/wtc.deaths/

I'm guessing a finalized death toll won't be for months. I'll state I'm less skeptical about IDF/Israeli death totals because they have publicly announced deaths from combat operations in Gaza. Hell, I'm more trusting of Hezbollah with their trading card collection. I don't see the Gazan Health Ministry revising any number downwards

Pretty sure the IDF didn't confirm or deny the 40 babies story. Been a while since I gave a shit about it. Pretty sure it was sourced from one soldier, to one journalist, but the Israelis used it to their benefit while never actually confirming the story.

Also lol. Lmao even. The IDF put a lot of propaganda into the hospital bombing story? I don't remember the IDF announcing 500+ dead and having a press conference surrounded by body bags.

The IDF has tirelessly spammed xShitter with propaganda too, like evil terrorists vs uWu civilians narratives, exaggerating about how scary the rocket attacks are, presenting themselves as fighters for democracy while their opponents are murderous savage animals, and far, far more - almost every tweet is propaganda.

I mean, sure? It's a war. The IDF publishing videos of, say, an airstrike, can both be true, and propaganda. Also "We good, them bad" is not unique to the IDF. I'm not skeptical that the IDF/Israel is showing footage making them look good/Hamas look bad. This seems obvious?

I even stated that I'm skeptical of the IDF identifying which Hamas commander died in whatever airstrike they've done - a common element of IDF Tweets.

TL;DR - zero skepticism from you when it comes to official narrative
The only time you thread regulars moaned about Israel and IDF was because of the temporary cease fire.
That is FINE
You're team Jewish
That is acceptable.
But do NOT dare expect skepticism from others when you offer none of yours.

So... I can't be skeptical of Palestinian propaganda even though there have been numerous videos upon videos of them staging or faking scenes for media sympathy?

I think that body that started this discussion is real, however it's not like Palestinians haven't done staged "dead baby" photos. You'd think they wouldn't need to, but they still do.

 

[Squid Bitch]

Member of the Religion of Peace stabbed some poor bastards in France because he was upset about the situation in Gaza. Was previously arrested in 2016 for planning an attack and was on a watchlist.

Paris attack near Eiffel Tower leaves one dead and two injured ( a )​

2nd December 2023, 07:40 EST

A police operation is ongoing near the Bir-Hakeim metro station, not far from the Eiffel Tower

A man has died and two others have been injured in an attack on a street in central Paris.

France's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said an attacker had targeted tourists around the Quai de Grenelle, which is close to the Eiffel Tower.

He added that a 26-year-old French national known to security services had been arrested.

Citing a police source, AFP news agency said the victim who died - identified as a German national - was stabbed.

The injured were treated by emergency services.

Mr Darmanin said the alleged attacker had shouted "Allahu Akbar", Arabic for "God is greatest", and told police he was upset about the situation in Gaza.

He said the suspect was sentenced to four years in prison in 2016 for planning another attack and was on the French security services watchlist.

The man was also known to have suffered psychiatric disorders, Mr Darmanin said.

A police operation is ongoing around the Bir-Hakeim metro station, and authorities have urged people to avoid the area.

The anti-terrorism prosecutor's office said it had taken charge of the investigation.

Writing on X, formerly Twitter, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said her thoughts were with those affected by the attack and thanked the emergency services for their response.

"We will not give in to terrorism. Never," she said.

In other "People acting like utter retards over a conflict occurring on an entirely different continent" news, today people in NYC decided to act like utter retards over a conflict occurring on an entirely different continent:

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Spoiler: More retarded New Yorkers (though I repeat myself)

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Now that Danielle Aloni and her daughter Emilia are safe at home, she's able to talk about her experience in captivity. My apologies to Mr. Alatout, but turns out her hostage letter was not, in fact, genuine.

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And after an Israeli journalist reported that one of the released hostages claimed to have been held by an UNRWA teacher, the agency had a conniption on twitter/X and got Community Note'd:

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Spoiler: Links in post

Tweet:
Full statement:

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SPREADING UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS ABOUT UNRWA MUST IMMEDIATELY STOP
01 December 2023

AMMAN, 1 December 2023 - “UNRWA has been following the traction of a post by an Israeli journalist on the social media platform X. The post claims that there is an alleged connection between an Israeli hostage held in Gaza and an UNRWA school teacher. The journalist did not provide more information on this claim.

“UNRWA and other entities in the United Nations have asked the journalist to provide more information on what we consider to be a very serious allegation. Despite repeated demands, the journalist has not responded.

“UNRWA requests that the journalist provides an immediate clarification of the claims, and that whoever may be able to assist us in determining the facts comes forward.

“In the absence of credible information to support this claim, UNRWA requests that the journalist immediately deletes the post. Making serious allegations in the public domain, unsupported by any evidence or verifiable facts in support thereof may amount to misinformation.

“UNRWA reiterates that it takes all allegations of breach of UN principles extremely seriously and immediately investigates them. We are hence determined to find out whether the information in question is genuine or false.

“UNRWA is the largest humanitarian organization in the Gaza Strip and is currently hosting more than 1 million people in its shelters. Defamation attacks and the spread of misinformation about UNRWA -from any side- directly endanger the lifesaving operations of the Agency and its staff operating on the ground.

“These harmful and presumably gratuitous acts must stop, immediately.”

Community Note:
The headmaster of an UNRWA school was a terrorist:

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Gaza headmaster was Islamic Jihad "rocket-maker" ( a )
Reuters
May 5, 20081:18 PM EDTUpdated 16 years ago

By Adam Entous

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - By day, Awad al-Qiq was a respected science teacher and headmaster at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip. By night, Palestinian militants say, he built rockets for Islamic Jihad.

The Israeli air strike that killed the 33-year-old last week also laid bare his apparent double life and embarrassed a U.N. agency which has long had to rebuff Israeli accusations that it has aided and abetted guerrillas fighting the Jewish state.

In interviews with Reuters, students and colleagues, as well as U.N. officials, denied any knowledge of Qiq's work with explosives. And his family denied he had any militant links at all, despite a profusion of Islamic Jihad posters at his home.

But militant leaders allied to the enclave's ruling Hamas group hailed him as a martyr who led Islamic Jihad's "engineering unit" -- its bomb makers. They fired a salvo of improvised rockets into Israel in response to his death.

Qiq's body was wrapped in an Islamic Jihad flag at his funeral, pictorial posters in his honour still bedeck his family home this week, and a handwritten notice posted on the metal gate at the entrance to the school declared that Qiq, "the chief leader of the engineering unit", would now find "paradise".

That poster was removed soon after Reuters visited the Rafah Prep Boys School, run by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees. Staff there said on Monday that UNRWA officials had told them not to discuss Qiq's activities.

No one from the United Nations attended the funeral or has paid their respects to the family, relatives said, adding that Qiq's widow and five children had heard nothing about a pension.

Spokesman Christopher Gunness said UNRWA, which spelled its teacher's surname al-Geeg, was looking into the matter.

"We have a zero-tolerance policy towards politics and militant activities in our schools. Obviously, we are not the thought police and we cannot police people's minds," he said.

He added that staff were also regularly instructed not to engage in political or militant activities of any kind.

The Israeli army said its April 30 attack at Rafah, close to the Egyptian border, hit a workshop used for making rockets and other improvised weaponry. An Israeli intelligence source told Reuters that Qiq was involved in developing rockets and mortars.

Yet Qiq, a physics graduate with eight years' experience of teaching at UNRWA schools, was also described by colleagues as a rising star in education. Relatives said he was promoted to run the school last year, with the title of deputy headmaster.

DOUBLE LIFE

The case of Awad al-Qiq highlights the complexities of life among the 1.5 million people of the Gaza Strip, where close to half voted for Hamas in 2006. Hamas fighters join Islamic Jihad in campaigns of rockets and suicide bombing in pursuit of a stated goal of recovering all Palestinian lands lost to Israel.

Qiq's high profile as both a public figure and in the secret world is unusual enough to cause considerable interest among those in Gaza who were surprised by the funeral arrangements.

Sympathies for guerrillas, who number in the tens of thousands, are widespread despite Israeli efforts to discredit Hamas and its allies by choking food and fuel supplies to the population.

That tactic has also set Israel and UNRWA at odds. The agency, set up to care for Palestinian refugees, has spoken out against what it calls collective punishment of civilians.

Israel has long alleged that militants use UNRWA vehicles and facilities. The United Nations has denied those charges, although some UNRWA employees have had prominent political roles in groups like Hamas -- such as teacher Saeed Seyam, who was interior minister in the Hamas-led government elected in 2006.

Some Western officials say the agency, as one of the biggest employers in the Gaza Strip, simply reflects the society it serves. But donors such as the United States, which fund UNRWA's work, insist on vetting procedures to ensure their cash does not reach groups they class as terrorists -- such as Islamic Jihad.

While many in Gaza are open about political allegiances, the threat of the kind of Israeli action that cost him his life on April 30 meant Qiq's double role was kept very secret indeed.

Surrounded by Islamic Jihad mourning posters at the family home, his sister Naima insisted: "He's only a teacher and head of the school. School was his life. He had no time to work with Islamic Jihad." Other family members nodded in agreement.

At the school, a 17-year-old who gave his name as Shadi read a poster for his former teacher and said simply: "Nobody knew."

At the bombed-out workshop 3 km (2 miles) from the school, damaged cars can be seen through now-locked gates. A 35-year-old man who gave his name as Abu Mohammed said he had found Qiq dying inside after helicopters fired a missile at the building.

"He was still alive, but he died shortly after," he said.

Relatives recalled with pride that Qiq had met John Ging, UNRWA's Gaza operations director. But while fellow teachers had come to pay their respects, they saw no U.N. representative.

Qiq's sister said his wife and five children were worried by the lack of news on any pension payment: "Awad did a lot for UNRWA," she said. "The family hoped UNRWA would support them."

Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Editing by Alastair Macdonald and Samia Nakhoul

Film by David Bedein in Jenin, UNRWA policies and practices

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UNRWA teachers celebrated Oct 7 massacre

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Report: U.N. Teachers Celebrated Hamas Massacre ( a )
November 6, 2023

WASHINGTON, November 6, 2023 — As war wages on between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, a watchdog group is releasing a new report that reveals how UNRWA teachers in the enclave, funded largely by the U.S. and EU, indoctrinate Palestinian children and promote terrorism and antisemitism.

Entitled “UNRWA: Hate Starts Here,” today’s report uncovers 20 UNRWA teachers and other staff members who celebrated the October 7th Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians on their social media accounts, collected by the non-governmental organization UN Watch, an independent human rights monitoring group based in Geneva.

The new cases are in addition to 133 UNRWA educators and staff who were exposed for promoting hate and violence in UN Watch’s last report, released in March 2023.

UN Watch’s Executive Director Hillel Neuer will be presenting the report on Wednesday before U.S. Congress.

UN Watch today submitted the report to EU foreign affairs commissioner Josep Borrell, and U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, whose governments are among the top funders of UNRWA, as well as to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.

UN Watch is calling on the agency’s major funders—including the U.S., Germany, the UK and the European Union—to ensure that none of their combined $1.2 billion of donations to UNRWA will fund teachers of hate, and to hold the agency accountable to its own standards and commitments.

Among the educators who used their personal social media channels to propagate hate and celebrate the Hamas terror attack on October 7th:

• UNRWA Gaza teacher Osama Ahmed posted “Allah is Great, Allah is Great, reality surpasses our wildest dreams” as the massacre was unfolding.
• UNRWA school principal Iman Hassan justified the massacre as “restoring rights” and “redressing” Palestinian “grievances.”
• Director of the UNRWA Khan Younis Training Center Rawia Helles, who is featured in and UNRWA campaign, glorified one of the terrorists as a “hero,” “raider,” and “prince of Khan Younis.”
• UNRWA English teacher Asmaa Raffia Kuheil excitedly posted “7th, October, 2023! Sculpture the date!” adding a heart emoji.
• UNRWA school administrator Hmada Ahmed posted “welcome the great October.”

The report only examined a sample of Facebook users who publicly identified themselves as UNRWA employees, and therefore UN Watch estimates that the number of UNRWA staff who incite violence and hatred includes hundreds if not thousands among the agency’s 30,000 staff.

Western Countries Fund UNRWA’s $1.6 Billion Budget
The teachers of hate at UNRWA are largely funded by Western countries who contribute the lion’s share of UNRWA’s $1.6 billion-dollar budget. Amounts pledged for 2022 included $344 million from the United States, $122 million from Germany, $107 million from the European Commission, $61 million from Sweden, $17 million from the UK, $24 million from Switzerland, $32 million from Norway, $28 million from France, $24 million from Canada, and $15 million from the Netherlands.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad Outraged Over Fired UNRWA Teacher
Following the release in March of a joint report by UN Watch and IMPACT-se, UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini was pressured into ordering his Lebanon director to suspend a teacher for inciting terrorism on social media.

In reaction, Hamas condemned UNRWA for “repressive behavior that contradicts the human right to freedom, thinking and expression.”

The Hamas statement blasted “UNRWA’s reliance on UN Watch” which it said “implements Zionist policies and has hostile stances towards the rights of the Palestinian people.”

The Iranian-sponsored Islamic Jihad also issued a statement denouncing UNRWA.

The move by UNRWA resulted in an uproar in Lebanon, where UNRWA staff pulled students out of school for mass protests and a 3-day strike.

In 2022, UNRWA had suspended six teachers for similar cases of incitement.

Comment by UN Watch
“We call on the governments that fund UNRWA to declare that they will stop enabling a system that teaches new generations of Palestinians to hate and murder Jews.”

“Let us be clear: the problem is not the social media posts, but rather the unconscionable employment of teachers who preach antisemitism and terrorism.”

“The hate that led to the October 7th massacre did not appear out of thin air. It was inculcated at UNRWA schools over many years. One of the Hamas terrorists who carried out the massacre on Israeli families was even found to be carrying his UNRWA diploma on him as he butchered innocent civilians.”

“The U.S., EU, Germany, UK, Canada and other donor states cannot morally send more money to UNRWA until it shows a genuine commitment to basic norms of education in its schools. This means the agency must publicly condemn UNRWA employees who incite terrorism and antisemitism, remove them from their positions, and create an independent and impartial investigation of all of its staff,” said Neuer.

UNRWA teacher holds hostage in attic

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UN Palestinian agency looking into claim teacher held Israeli hostage in attic ( a )
by Mike Brest, Defense Reporter
December 01, 2023 01:00 PM

The United Nations's agency in the Palestinian territories is aware of and attempting to get to the bottom of a claim that one of its teachers detained one of the Israeli hostages.

This report originated from Israeli journalist Almog Boker of Israeli Channel 13, who reported earlier this week that one of the hostages held in Gaza since Oct. 7 "was held for almost 50 days in the attic of a house" by a teacher with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. "This is a father of 10 children who locked the abductee in the attic, hardly provided him with food, and did not provide him with medicine."

The agency takes "any such allegation seriously," Laurane March, a UNRWA spokeswoman, told the Washington Examiner. "We are determined to find out whether this information is genuine or false. UNRWA is in contact with the author of this allegation and whoever may be in a position to assist us in determining the facts."

The agency has faced scrutiny in the aftermath of the attack after a U.N. Watch report that found staffers "immediately celebrated and justified" the Oct. 7 terror attacks that ignited the current war. There have also been broader concerns about the curriculum being taught in UNRWA-run schools as it relates to Jews and Israel.

"We call on the governments that fund UNRWA to declare that they will stop enabling a system that teaches new generations of Palestinians to hate and murder Jews," U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer said, also noting that the "hate that led to the October 7th massacre did not appear out of thin air" and "was inculcated at UNRWA schools over many years."

During a weeklong temporary ceasefire that ended on Friday, Hamas released more than a hundred of the roughly 240 hostages taken during the Oct. 7 attacks. They are still holding more than 130 hostages, though it's unknown when they could be released given the resumption of the war.

The claim prompted one U.S. lawmaker to reach out to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres directly.

"I am appalled by the recent reports that Israeli hostages were held in Gaza by at least one teacher working for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)," Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) wrote in a letter to the secretary general. "I urge you in the strongest possible terms to investigate these allegations that UNRWA educational personnel were complicit in the hostage taking. If so, a fundamental change needs to be made at the UN and in UNRWA specifically."

The agency's website states the organization checks names of all staff, personnel, donating entities, beneficiaries, vendors, and suppliers against the Consolidated U.N. Sanctions List every six months.

The U.S. designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1997, while the United Nations does not classify it as one.

Mr. FAFO update:
He's back and he's got a new role: husband!
Congrats to the happy (PR) couple!

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[EyeGuy]

Two new IDF losses:

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[twisted cycle path]

exaggerating about how scary the rocket attacks are

How the fuck do you exaggerate how scary muslim crack niggers shooting rockets at your population centers every few months is?

People who aren't jewish twitter neocons were immediately skeptical of the 40 gorillion beheaded babies(which was just 1 journo bitch and not the jew propoganda engine itself) but luckily it didn't stop hamas from then posting videos of themselves shooting dogs and hunting unarmed civilians in the streets, in case we had any doubts that they might actually be sympathetic and merely misrepresented by said jew propoganda engine. Wishing Israelis luck in solving their rabid crack nigger problem can be done while also scrutinizing outlandish claims that they make.

You're on team Crack Nigger, I hope that's acceptable to you.

 

[behindyourightnow]

And after an Israeli journalist reported that one of the released hostages claimed to have been held by an UNRWA teacher, the agency had a conniption on twitter/X and got Community Note'd:

All the other UN organizations on Twitter write posts like: "Trans women are women! Disinformation does NOT slay! "

...but UNRWA goes straight to issuing what looks like a veiled threat. I guess they're used to getting their own way and doing whatever the fuck they want.

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

...but UNRWA goes straight to issuing what looks like a veiled threat. I guess they're used to getting their own way and doing whatever the fuck they want.

The UNRWA is really the most corrupt organization attached to the U.N. and that's saying something. It should be defunded and disbanded. Any Palestinian refugees who are eligible can go under the U.N's already existing organization that handle literally every other refugee problem on the planet.

 

[doodoocaca]

If you to have a scary thought, imagine Kamala Harris meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, King Abdullah of Jordan, President Mohammed bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates, and the emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.
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I'm imagining Biden dying very suddenly and Kamala having to try to do foreign policy and actually meet those people right now. Fucking lol.

 

[quackrock]

8,000 dead kids? Does that number happen to come from the same mathematicians who counted 500 corpses 10 minutes after an Israeli strike on a hospital that never happened, in a war zone during a humanitarian crisis with no internet?

Not sure I follow, could you rephrase as a metaphor involving cookies and ovens?

 

[EyeGuy]

An IDF combat engineering officer was in a D9 when the cabin took a hit from an RPG. The cabin was set on fire, but he managed to save both himself and the operator, who was also wounded:

He filmed the whole thing, including their evacuation, and says he wants to go back to Gaza, with or without his leg.