Hamas: Calling for non-international supervision of UNRWA is a malicious plan and political targeting

Hamas said that what the United Nations proposed regarding assigning an international alternative to supervise the work of UNRWA is a “malicious plan aimed at ending its work as a political witness to the Palestinian Nakba.”

The Hamas movement considered what was stated in the United Nations report regarding assigning an international alternative to supervising the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a “malicious” plan aimed at ending its work as a political witness to the Palestinian Nakba.

This came in a statement by the movement, on Saturday, commenting on a report issued by an independent international committee concerned with reviewing the neutrality of UNRWA, which included a call for the establishment of an “international body” to supervise the work of the agency from outside.

The report issued by the committee, last Monday, concluded that Israel did not provide any evidence for its claims regarding the agency’s lack of impartiality, and stressed the importance of its relief role.

Hamas said in its statement: “We followed with interest and concern the report issued by the committee assigned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, headed by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, to review the neutrality of UNRWA, in which it refuted the occupation’s allegations through which it attempted to distort the work of the international agency.” .

The statement added: “But in the content of the 54-page report, we stop at a set of caveats and risks that aim to empty the work of UNRWA and form international bodies alternative to the United Nations in following up and supervising it.”

He considered this "an attempt to target its political dimension, and in the context of malicious plans aimed at ending its work as a political witness to the Palestinian Nakba."

The movement expressed its surprise that the report did not mention "the occupation targeting 160 of UNRWA's headquarters and the martyrdom of 180 of its employees and not being subjected to field executions and the horrific targeting of displaced people in its schools."