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Thursday, October 31, 2024
IDF interrogation footage shows suspect describing Hamas takeover of UNRWA
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIn a video published by the IDF’s public affairs arm, a Jabalia man described as a former security guard for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA tells an Israeli interrogator that following the outbreak of war on October 7, Hamas members came into an UNRWA facility and “took everything” by force.
The man says that Hamas members brazenly looted trucks loaded with “supplies,” and then commandeered the UNRWA vehicles as well, using them as a shield.
“It’s a form of defense for them, so they can move around easily transport and get things et cetera,” the man says, according to a translation provided by the military.
When we say Hamas is embedded in @UNRWA this is what we mean.
WATCH a testimony of an UNRWA employee in northern Gaza, in which he explains how Hamas exploits UNRWA facilities and vehicles: pic.twitter.com/9K7u6hJlfn
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 31, 2024
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