UNRWA: Israel tortured our employees to admit cooperation with Hamas

In a statement, the Relief and Employment Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) accused the Zionist regime of torturing several of the agency’s employees that it detained in the Gaza Strip. force him to have relations with Hamas.

According to the Al Jazeera news channel, UNRWA announced in its statement that its employees spoke about the horrific events during their detention and interrogation by the Zionist authorities, these reports include torture, severe mistreatment, assault and sexual abuse.

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The agency further reported that some of its employees told UNRWA teams during their interrogation about Hamas’s attack on the occupied territories on October 7 that they had been tortured and mistreated. .

UNRWA emphasized: These forced confessions are the result of torture that the Zionist authorities used in order to release more misleading information about the agency in the framework of its efforts to dismantle UNRWA, this action endangers our employees in Gaza and its consequences for the operation We are in Gaza and the area is dangerous.

This aid agency further announced that it has submitted its written protest to the arrest of its employees to the Zionist regime, but has not received any response in this regard.

CNN news network announced that it has obtained a copy of a report compiled by UNRWA that has not yet been published, and it states: Israel committed extensive physical and psychological abuses against Palestinians detained in Israel during the war. It is Gaza.

In this report, the collective statements of the residents of Gaza detained in the prisons and military bases of the Zionist regime and those who were released and returned to the Gaza Strip are cited.

Filipe Lazzarini, Commissioner General of UNRWA, said in his speech at the UN General Assembly: “There is no safe place for the residents of Gaza to go.” Despite all the tragedies that have happened to them and that we have witnessed, it seems that nothing worse has happened yet.

Also, UNRWA’s Commissioner General warned that the attack on Rafah with about 1.4 million displaced people who are there seems imminent, and the agency cannot afford financial shocks, especially if the war in Gaza escalates.

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On the other hand, the spokesperson of the Zionist army stated: UNRWA has employed more than 450 people from Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza, and Israel has sent this information to the United Nations. We have this information and other intelligence data. We sent it to our international partners, including the United Nations.

On the other hand, UNRWA said that UNRWA welcomes all information that can be included in the independent investigation that the UN is currently conducting.

UNRWA communications director Juliette Thoma said the agency is encouraging any organization with any information about highly dangerous allegations against its staff to contribute to the ongoing UN investigation.

UNRWA employs 13,000 people in Gaza and provides daily aid to more than half of the 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip. It has increased the agency, which is under severe pressure in the continuous war against Gaza.

Source: ISNA