UNWRA admits Hamas tunnel buried under its school
June 8, 2021
Palestinian terrorists in a tunnel in Gaza. (Hamas website)
UN agency embarrassed again after admitting Israeli bombing
exposed a military tunnel under one of its Gaza schools
By World Israel News Staff
This week, the United Nations (UN) admitted that the Hamas terror group placed one of its tunnels under an UN-operated school in Gaza.
“A detailed assessment on 31 May 2021 revealed what appears to be a cavity and a possible tunnel, at the location of the missile strike,” said a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for (UNRWA) press release. “UNRWA condemns the existence and potential use by Palestinian armed groups of such tunnels underneath its schools in the strongest possible terms. It is unacceptable that students and staff be placed at risk in such a way.”
The revelation definitively confirms that Hamas uses children as human shields, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said Monday.
It's worse than that, Nikki; they literally hope that the IDF will target the schools and kill children so they can add to their propaganda and fan the flames of fanaticism.
While inspecting bomb damage at the Zaitoun Preparatory Boys’ School, UNRWA admitted that investigators found “what appears to be a cavity and a possible tunnel, at the location of the missile strike. The depth of the cavity is approximately 7.5 meters below the surface of the school.”
Haley said the discovery showed Hamas’ cruelty, hiding behind vulnerable civilians.
“Another Hamas terror tunnel was found underneath a UNRWA school. This is further proof that Hamas will use children as human shields,” Haley tweeted. “Hamas doesn’t care about protecting its civilians, it only cares about killing Israel’s.”
Over the years, UNRWA has been caught with Hamas weapons in its buildings, including schools. Professor Oren Gross, of the University of Minnesota Law School tweeted that a pattern has emerged in which “Hamas [uses] UNRWA’s schools and health clinics to hide its terror tunnels & UNRWA is ‘surprised’ to find those.”
How is that even possible that they could dig tunnels and line them with whatever without anyone from UNRWA being aware of it. Maybe it's time to shut UNRWA down to keep the children safe.
After Hamas rockets were found hidden in an UNRWA school in 2014, then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon issued an angry statement saying that whoever placed the rockets there was endangering civilians by making the school a legitimate military target under international law.
“By doing so, those responsible are turning schools into potential military targets, and endangering the lives of innocent children, UN employees working in such facilities and anyone using the UN schools as shelter,” Moon said.
In Geneva, the head of the watchdog organization UN Watch, which monitors abuses by the UN, called on current UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to end his organization’s inaction and take steps to crack down on UNRWA, which aside from the weapons embarrassments has been wracked by corruption scandals.
“The discovery of this terror tunnel operating directly under the classrooms of young children is not an isolated incident but part of a policy and practice by Hamas terrorists to systematically exploit the organs of the United Nations,” Neuer tweeted.
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Radio Interview: Raymond Ibrahim on the Arab-Israeli Conflict,
Media Biases, and More
06/09/2021
by Raymond Ibrahim
Earlier this week, Fr. McTeigue interviewed me on The Catholic Current.
We discussed a number of topics — including the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict, biases of media, disregard for the persecution of Christians, Muslim immigration, and more.
The 52-minute-long audio segment can be listened to by clicking here.
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Explosions hit two buses in Kabul, at least 7 killed & 6 injured
12 Jun, 2021 13:59
Afghan security forces inspect the wreckage of a passenger van after a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan June 12, 2021. © Reuters
Two minibuses have been hit by explosions in Kabul, Afghanistan, local authorities have confirmed. At least seven people were killed and six more injured in the blasts.
The explosions rocked western Kabul on Saturday, with the attacks occurring in neighborhoods predominantly inhabited by the Shiite Hazara minority.
Six people were killed by the first blast, with another person left dead by the second explosion, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, Tariq Arian, told local media. A total of six people were injured by the blast, Kabul police spokesman Basir Mujahid added.
Footage circulating online shows one of the buses completely engulfed in flames, surrounded by debris. It was not immediately clear whether the vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb or if the explosive device was on board.
No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Earlier this month, Kabul’s Hazara minority was targeted by similar attacks on buses that left 12 people dead.
Back in May, some 80 people, primarily schoolgirls, were left dead after multiple blasts rocked a school located in the same area. The gruesome attack has not been claimed by any militant group, with the main adversary of the Afghan government, the Taliban, strongly denying involvement and condemning the attack on children. At the time, the Taliban pointed fingers at Islamic State terrorists, known for their hardline views and particular hatred displayed towards Shiite Muslims.
In recent weeks, Afghanistan has seen an uptick in violence, with fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security forces intensifying, as well as assorted terrorist attacks occurring on a nearly daily basis. The unrest comes as the September 11 deadline for the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country, set by US President Joe Biden, approaches, while talks between the Kabul government and Taliban have stalled.
4 Afghan nationals jailed for 10 years over arson that destroyed Greece's Moria migrant camp amid Covid-19 quarantine protests
12 Jun, 2021 21:51
FILE PHOTO: Fire at the Moria migrant camp on the island of Lesbos. © Reuters / Alkis Konstantinidis
A Greek court has sentenced four asylum-seekers from Afghanistan to 10 years behind bars for their role in the fire that ripped through Europe’s largest migrant camp, Moria, on the Mediterranean island of Lesbos last year.
The men were found guilty of arson with risk to human life, the court said in the verdict on Saturday. The defense claimed that their clients had been framed by a witness, saying that the ruling was “an inconceivable conviction without evidence.”
The lawyers earlier filed a request for three of the defendants to be tried by a juvenile court as they were under 18 at the time of fire, but it was turned down by the judge. They already appealed against the sentencing, but it has no suspensive effect and the convicts will be sent to prison right away.
The blaze at the camp broke out in September last year, shortly after the discovery of dozens of coronavirus cases among the inhabitants forced authorities to impose unpopular quarantine measures. There were no fatalities, but Moria was completely destroyed, leaving thousands of people to sleep in the open for days, until a temporary camp for them was erected.
Greek investigators believe that the fire was deliberately started by the asylum-seekers themselves in protest against the Covid-19 restrictions. Six Afghan nationals were detained by the police following the incident, with two of them previously sentenced to five years behind bars back in March.
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