The October 7, 2023 massacre exposed UNRWA’s true face and its full cooperation with Hamas terrorism. UNRWA employees in the education system, including teachers, educators, and even school principals, took an active part in the massacre. UNRWA facilities, including schools, have been used as operational bases by Hamas. Since the Hamas takeover in 2009 of the UNRWA unions, which constitute more than 30,000 active members, Hamas has ruled UNRWA with an iron fist; HAMAS controls UNRWA.

Today, it is clearer than ever that UNRWA has educated its students toward the “right of return by force of arms”—which has one and only one meaning: the destruction of Israel.

Schools for refugee children have reopened. UNRWA is providing large blue tents that are used as schools. According to US claims, the schools in Gaza are run by UNICEF, yet the ruling hands are the hands of Hamas.

Site visits we conducted in UNRWA schools prove that nothing has changed. The incitement, hatred, and violent indoctrination towards the right of return are exactly as they were before the October 7 attack.

News teams from the Bedein Center visited the UNRWA school in the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, and spoke with students, teachers, and education supervisors while looking at the makeshift UNRWA classrooms conducted in their tents.

A grim picture emerged. In several classrooms we visited, next to the blackboard, a large poster bore a poem glorifying the right of return. The students sitting in front of the board read and memorized the desire to return to Haifa, to return to Jaffa, and to destroy the State of Israel.

Below is the translation by Dr. Arnon Groiss of the poem placed in the front of classrooms to remind students that the struggle for the right of return must continue:

Beloved Palestine, how can I live far from your valleys and hills? The green-colored mountain slopes call to me, and on the horizon, signs of redness. The shores call to me, weeping, and in time’s ears echoes the sound of sobbing. Your orphaned cities call to me; your villages call to me with their domes. Tomorrow we shall return, and the generations will listen to the pounding footsteps of return. We shall return with the echoing storms, with lightning and the shooting star, With winged hope and songs, With the soaring eagle and the hawk. Indeed, thousands of victims shall return; the victims of oppression will open every door.

In filmed conversations with students, they expressed their desire to return to their homes in pre-1948 Palestine. In filmed conversations with students, they cursed and reviled Israel and the Jews. One student stated: “The Jews are dogs, they must be expelled…”

It became clear that the textbooks are the same textbooks which have been used to incite violence against Israel and Jews since the Oslow accords were signed in 1994. Where is the oversight process by the United States? Where are the deradicalization processes? Oversight and instructions come from the Ministry of Education in Gaza, under Hamas control.

During a random visit to an Arabic lesson, the teacher had written on the board praise for Palestine: “The land of Palestine is a good and blessed land.”

Fresh graffiti on the new classroom walls praises the “Toufan al-Aqsa” (“Al-Aqsa Flood”)—the name Hamas gave to the October 7 massacre.

They speak about Al-Aqsa (the Temple Mount) and Jerusalem and long for the day they will be at Al-Aqsa.

Students at the UNRWA school assert in unison:

“We learned not to surrender because Allah is with us.”

“Inshallah, God will liberate it from the Jews and from Israel.”

“I want to return to my home in Ashkelon.”

“The Jews are dogs.”

“The Jews took Gaza, Jaffa, Haifa from us…”

“Who are the Jews?”

“I hope we will liberate all of Palestine.”

“Even if thousands die, we must liberate Jerusalem.”

One child, who was wearing a shirt emblazoned with the Hebrew words “Bnei Akiva,” stated: “We in Gaza did not lose the war; Allah is with us.”

A boy sang: “Whatever happens, even if they destroy it, even if they kill us, we will realize the right of return.”

One girl sang songs in honor of Jerusalem. Another girl followed, singing about liberating Palestine.

There you have it. The legacy of the US-initiated “Peace Council.” So much for the promise of US Secretary of State that the US would no longer work with UNRWA.

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