Israel dismantled the East Jerusalem headquarters of the terrorist-linked United Nations Palestinian agency (UNRWA). “Israel demolished structures inside the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency’s East Jerusalem compound on Tuesday after seizing the site last year,” Reuters reported. “Surrounded by Israeli forces, bulldozers razed several large buildings and other smaller structures inside the United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s compound, where dozens of agency staff once worked.”
Last October, the Israeli parliament passed a law banning UNRWA from operating anywhere in Israel and severing all official contacts with the body. The drastic measure was taken after the Israeli military revealed the identities of hundreds of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists who were on the UN agency’s payroll, with several of them taking part in the October 7 massacre.
“UNRWA employees participated in the October 7th massacre and the kidnapping of Israelis,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry explained in a statement on Tuesday.
“Numerous employees within the organization are Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, and the organization’s infrastructure has been used for tunnel construction, rocket fire, and terrorist activities,” the ministry added. “UNRWA-Hamas has long ceased to be a humanitarian aid organization, serving instead as a greenhouse for terrorism.”
The Jerusalem Post reports:
Israeli personnel arrived to dismantle the UNRWA (UN Relief Works Agency) headquarters on Ammunition Hill in northern Jerusalem on Tuesday morning.Ammunition Hill is the central headquarters from which all of the organization’s activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem were managed. UNRWA’s main logistical infrastructure was concentrated within the building.Israel Police noted that security forces were at the scene to ensure the safety of workers demolishing the site, which had been vacant for at least a year.—Since the beginning of the war, UNRWA’s ties with the terrorist organization Hamas have been exposed, and it was discovered that some UNRWA operatives even took part in the October 7 massacre. In addition, numerous tunnels and terrorist infrastructures were found under buildings belonging to UNRWA in the Gaza Strip.”This is a historic day, a holiday, and a very important day for Jerusalem’s governance,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stated.”For years, these terror supporters were here, and today they are banished with everything they built.”
The UN agency has been deeply infiltrated by Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza and the West Bank, weaponizing the so-called humanitarian organization. The Wall Street Journal reported in January 2024 that out of UNRWA’s 12,000 employees, “around 10% of all of Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups.” According to an official Israeli report published around that time, these “figures are based on cross-referencing UNRWA’s official staff lists with Hamas’ own personnel records—including internal recruitment databases, military training rosters, and administrative files—matched through national ID numbers.”
The same report revealed that Hamas was using UNRWA facilities for various terrorist activities, including turning them into command centres, locating tunnel shafts, and placing missile launchers around these compounds.
Just weeks after this report was published, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) uncovered a Hamas server farm and a tunnel complex beneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters. The underground Hamas base was hooked to UNRWA’s electricity connection, proving that the agency’s staffers were colluding — if not actively working — with the terrorists.
Shortly after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order defunding UNRWA. Recent media reports suggest that the president is considering terrorism-related sanctions on the disgraced agency. Fox News reported last week on “a potential Trump administration move to designate the U.N. agency as a foreign terrorist organization.”
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