IDF says UNRWA worker killed in West Bank raid was throwing explosives at troops

Activists protest against United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) outside their offices in Jerusalem, March 20, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
Activists protest against United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) outside their offices in Jerusalem, March 20, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

The IDF says that a worker for the UN agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) who was killed in a West Bank raid was throwing explosives at troops and was a known terror operative.

Earlier, UNRWA said that one of their employees was “shot and killed on the roof of his home by a sniper,” and that it was “the first time a UNRWA staff member has been killed in the West Bank in more than 10 years.”

The incident took place in the Far’a camp in the northern West Bank. It identified the slain employee as Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, who “worked as a sanitation laborer” in the camp.

In an English language statement, IDF spokesperson Nadav Shoshani accuses UNRWA of “not telling the full story.”

Shoshani says that during an IDF operation in Far’a a terrorist was identified hurling explosive devices that posed a threat to the forces operating in the area. IDF troops opened fire toward him to remove said threat, and he was killed.

“The terrorist was subsequently identified and it was discovered he is also an UNRWA employee named Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad. It should be noted that after receiving his details, it was found that the terrorist was known to Israeli security forces and he had been complicit in additional terrorist activities,” Shoshani says.

“This is yet another example of an UNRWA employee taking active part in terrorist activities against Israel, as has been proven in several other cases in the past, including employees who participated in the Oct. 7 massacre,” he says.

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