Report: Hamas Jihad fully controls UN agency for Palestinians refugees

[Mosby]

WASHINGTON — Hamas and Islamic Jihad have effectively captured the United Nations agency to care for Palestinian refugees, a report said.

The Center for Near East Policy Research asserted that Hamas and Jihad controlled the UN Refugee and Works Agency in the Gaza Strip. In a report, the U.S.-based center said Hamas operatives were in control of UNRWA’s labor union and that refugee camps served as a recruiting ground for Islamist fighters.

“Over the years, UNRWA has become a convenient surrogate for terrorist organizations, led by Hamas, which unrestrictedly dominates the UNRWA workers union, and its men — along with educators from the Islamic Jihad and other groups — are the ones who educate generations of descendants of Palestinian refugees about the values of jihad against Israel and all infidels,” the report, titled “The UNRWA-Hamas Axis,” said.

Author Jonathan Halevi, a leading Israeli analyst on Palestinian affairs, cited the discovery of rocket caches in several UNRWA schools during the Hamas war with Israel in July and August 2014. Halevi also said Hamas built an attack tunnel from a UN health clinic and boobytrapped the facility.

http://www.worldtribune.com/2014/08/17/report-hamas-islamic-jihad-seized-control-un-agency-refugees-gaza/

[bravenak]

1. The UNRWA-Hamas Axis?

I wonder why they think this type of hyperbole will work.

[4now]

2. WorldTribune.com exposed (WashTimes side project)

http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?030908ta_talk_mcgrat...

Aficionados of the Drudge Report may have noticed several striking headlines recently linking to stories from the World Tribune, an enterprise with a title as grand and ambitious as it is unfamiliar. One such story last week began, “U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have finally been located.” The apparent scoop -- of stop-the-presses significance -- was unsigned, and billed as a “special to World Tribune.com.” The Times, the Journal, and the Washington Post, meanwhile, not only got beat but failed even to acknowledge the news in the days that followed. What gives?

... In fact, the World Tribune is not published in the United Kingdom, nor is it, to be precise, a newspaper. It is a Web site produced, more or less as a hobby, in Falls Church, Virginia, and is dedicated to the notion, as its mission statement explains, that “there is a market for news of the world and not just news of the weird.”

... Its editor and publisher, Robert Morton, is an assistant managing editor at the Washington Times and a former “corporate editor” for News World Communications, the Times’ owner and the publishing arm of the Unification Church, led by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

... World Tribune.com more fairly qualifies as something between a newspaper and a rumor-mongering blog. Call it “blews.” In this sense, it is part of a loose network of mostly conservative sites -- WorldNetDaily, Dr. Koontz’s National Security Message Board, debka File (produced by a pair of Jerusalem-based journalists thought to have moles in Israeli intelligence) -- whose dispatches sometimes serve as the journalistic equivalent of trial balloons ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x1205

[DanTex]

3. Hmm, the "Center for Near East Policy Research".

That wouldn't be like Israel's version of the Heritage Foundation, by any chance?

[King_David]

4. A lot of rockets were stored in their schools and facilities

and they actually returned a whole bunch of munitions to Hamas when they were caught red handed storing them.

[4now]

5. A lot of rockets were shot at their schools and facilities by Israel

The IDF killed a lot of civilians that way.