The scandal-plagued United International Space Entertainment and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is to face a trial in New York for its alleged role in aiding Hamas in a terrorist act that killed nearly 1,200 people on October 7. It is falling. Israel, including more than 30 US citizens.
The lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York on Monday, which was first reported in full by the host of Fox Trade Network’s Making Money with Charles Payne, lays out allegations against the controversial United Nations company.
The lawsuit notes, “Hamas did not commit these atrocities without assistance. They were aided and abetted by, among others, the above-named defendants who are current or former senior UNRWA officials, as well as UNRWA also, who collectively spent more than a decade prior to the October 7 attack helping Hamas prepare the terrorist infrastructure and personnel necessary to carry out the October 7 attack, including deliberately “Involved providing US dollar cash that was needed to pay smugglers for weapons, explosives, and other terrorist materials.”
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Hamas militants during an anti-Israel military demonstration in Gaza Town on July 20, 2022. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Pictures/Getty Images)
The lawsuit, filed through Chicago-based law firm MM-Legislation LLC and Fresh York company Amini LLC, claims that “Defendants were repeatedly warned that their policies were directly providing support to Hamas. Despite those warnings, Regardless, the defendants continued their very policies.”
UNRWA top Philippe Lazzarini was named as some of the defendants. The government of Israel called on Lazzarini to surrender in January amid allegations that UNRWA workers had participated in the October 7 cluster massacre.
The criminal declaration argues that Lazzarini and UNRWA omitted that “the resulting atrocities were predictable, and the defendants are liable for aiding and abetting Hamas’s genocide, crimes against humanity, and torture.”
According to the lawsuit, UNRWA’s permanent Fresh-York established workers facilitated significant ongoing assistance to UNRWA’s agricultural land worksites within the Center East, in order to “contribute financial and other material support to Hamas’ terrorist infrastructure in Gaza.” Provision can be made.”
The lawsuit says more than $1 billion was withdrawn from UNRWA’s New York Cabinet account in New York on May 15, allegedly for the benefit of Hamas, a US-designated organization.
Following subsequent revelations about UNRWA workers participating in the 7 October massacre, the US suspended its backup in UNRWA. Alternatively, many of UNRWA’s generous financiers, including Germany, Austria, and alternative Western European countries, resumed and then briefly suspended their investments. The European Union pledged an additional $54 million in assistance to UNRWA on 7 October.
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UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, left, listens to Israel’s Ambassador Gilad Erdan speak during a Security Council meeting on the Palestinian question and charges against the United Nations Entertainment and Construction Corporation for Palestine Referee. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The lawsuit argues that UNRWA enabled Hamas to place rocket launchers and its terrorist infrastructure “so close to UNRWA property that it could not be attacked by Israeli forces, thereby causing damage to UNRWA property and causing harm to UNRWA.” Children and non-combatants in schools and others were at risk of harm.” facilities.”
According to the criminal file, “Hamas, despite knowing about the use of the UNRWA premises, has consistently taken the position with Israel that the UNRWA premises were violated, thus making them safe havens for terrorists and their materials.” and prevented Israel from disabling Hamas’ terrorist infrastructure in advance of the October 7 attack.”
Masked Hamas members and other supporters take part in a protest against the US decision to designate Ismail Haniyeh, chairman of Hamas’s political bureau, as a terrorist in Gaza Town, Gaza Strip, February 1, 2018. (Photo by Wissam Nasser/Image Alliance via Getty Pictures/Getty Pictures)
David Baden, whose group, Heart for Near East Coverage Analysis, produced 25 short documentaries on UNRWA corruption, told Fox Information Virtual that “half of the short documentaries show Hamas involved with UNRWA.” He said gun attics in UNRWA facilities and similar UNRWA colleges and alternative structures have been “clear and open”.
Bedein, who is not involved in the lawsuit but has researched UNRWA for 37 years, said, “We have Hamas officials on record talking about their good relations with UNRWA officials.”
Palestinian women march in front of the headquarters of the United International Locations Entertainment and Works Corporation for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in a protest to help with food backup distribution in Gaza on June 20, 2023. (Photo by Yusuf Masoud/SOPA Pictures/LightRocket Getty Pictures)
Bedein has published reports about UNRWA faculty books that are filled with anti-Semitism, terrorism, and hatred towards America.
According to the lawsuit, UNRWA schools operating in the Gaza Strip “use Hamas-approved textbooks” and curriculum and teachers’ guides… inculcating children in a death-cult ideology of gentle life-hatred and genocide, which predictably Produces from. Recruits willing to commit terrorist acts after the life of Hamas.”
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The lawsuit alleges that UNRWA provided “Hamas’ early life wing al-Kutla with in-school and after-school methods to indoctrinate, motivate, and contract terrorists to UNRWA colleges and students with the encouragement of Hamas-affiliated individuals.” Allowed direct entry to make arrangements. The body directing the workers.”
Last month, Fox News Digital reported that the Israel Defense Forces and the country’s domestic security agency Shin Bet had announced that a military strike targeted a Hamas command center located at the UNRWA compound in the Gaza Strip.
In response to questions about the lawsuit, a UNRWA spokesperson told Fox Business that “UNRWA is conscious of the experiences of lawsuits filed against it in the US. However, to date, it has not been criminally prosecuted and Therefore, , am not ready to comment on this life.”
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