After Agency Head’s Criticism – Israel Reminds UNRWA Its Gaza Schools Were Used as Hamas Bases

The Israeli Agency COGAT (Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories: Judea and Samaria and towards the Gaza Strip) slammed Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini for his latest attack on Israel.

On Wednesday, Lazzarini issued a statement charging that UNRWA was “forced to close all its schools turning them into shelters for displaced families” because of the war in Gaza.

In response, COGAT issued a statement pointing out how “the schools have been Hamas weapons storage facilities, tunnel access points, and bases of operation for over a decade.”

“Maybe if you hadn’t turned a blind eye to Hamas’s use of UNRWA schools,” COGAT said, “ the current situation would be entirely different.”

Lazzarini’s statement went on to list all the ways that the Gaza schoolchildren are suffering due to the closed schools, without making any mention of how many were used as bases of operations by Hamas terrorists.

The IDF has confirmed that so far that at least three of the nine terrorists killed at the Al Jaouni School in the area of Nuseirat, Gaza they other day were also UNRWA employees.

Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon called out the ongoing hypocrisy of the UN in a tweet:

What is "unacceptable,” @antonioguterres, is the fact you refuse to recognize reality and continue to distort it.

Terrorists operating out of civilian buildings previously used by @UNRWA are not "innocent." It is unconscionable that the UN continues to condemn Israel in its… https://t.co/ThWltXRqFY

— Danny Danon ?? דני דנון (@dannydanon) September 12, 2024