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WSJ admits no proof of UNRWA staff collaborating with Hamas

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 5 Aug 2024 17:34
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The Wall Street Journal stated in January, citing Israeli intelligence, that at least 12 UNRWA employees were personally involved in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

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    Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein al-Hilweh gather in the backyard of a UNRWA school in Sidon, Lebanon, on September 12, 2023. (AP)

The chief editor of The Wall Street Journal Elena Cherney has admitted to not having evidence to back up its January claims that numerous UNRWA employees in Gaza were involved in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Semafor news reported.

The Wall Street Journal stated in January, citing Israeli intelligence, that at least 12 UNRWA employees were personally involved in the events of October 7. 

"The fact that the Israeli claims haven't been backed up by solid evidence doesn't mean our reporting was inaccurate or misleading, that we have walked it back or that there is a correctable error here," Cherney said at the time.

Sources told Semafor that since the WSJ article was published, its writers have attempted to validate the information several times but have failed at doing so. 

They also divulged that WSJ journalists covering the war on Gaza have frequently expressed worry about the newspaper's biased coverage of "Israel".

In March, Reuters reported that following weeks of a nonstop Israeli-targeted campaign against the UN agency, UNRWA said in an unpublished report that some of its staffers were coerced into falsely stating that they had ties with the Palestinian Resistance movement - Hamas and that they took part in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7

The occupation entity alleged in January that 12 of the 12,000 UNRWA members in Gaza participated in the October operation.

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According to the news agency, UNRWA's report dated February said that its workers were subjected "to threats and coercion" by the Israeli authorities "while in detention and pressured to make false statements against the Agency," including that it has affiliations with Hamas and that "UNRWA staff members took part" in the Resistance operation in October 2023.

The Israeli allegations prompted over 15 countries, including the United States, to suspend almost half a billion dollars in UNRWA funding. The agency warned of the catastrophic repercussions of this decision on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, already in shatters due to "Israel's" ongoing genocide and starvation policy.

Since then, several countries resumed their funding as none of the Israeli allegations were corroborated.

'Israel' passes bill in first reading to label UNRWA 'terrorist org.'

Last month, the Israeli parliament granted initial approval to a bill that aims to label UNRWA as a "terrorist organization" and suggests severing ties with the humanitarian agency.

The bill received approval during its first reading in the Knesset. It was set to be sent back to the Israeli "Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee" for additional review and discussion before the final decision is made.

Commenting on the Knesset's measure, UNRWA spokesperson Juliette Touma warned that this is "another attempt in a wider campaign to dismantle the agency," adding that "such steps are unheard of in the history of the United Nations."

The Palestinian Resistance group Hamas condemned the approval of the bill, saying that the bill seeks "to end the Palestinian cause, foremost the refugee issue."

Hamas called on the international community and the United Nations to "take firm stances against Israel" and protect UNRWA from the occupation's attempts to "eliminate it."

Similarly, the Palestinian al-Mujahideen Movement condemned the bill, describing it as a "Zionist attempt to eliminate one of the legal witnesses to our people's tragedy and their displacement in 1948," asserting that the decision is a "precursor to a new policy of starvation and siege" against the Palestinian people.

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