A UN agency said it had no idea a Hamas nerve center was directly below its Gaza HQ

[Eugene]

Source: Business Insider

A UN agency said it had no idea a Hamas nerve center was directly below its Gaza HQ

Joshua Zitser
Mon, February 12, 2024 at 9:25 AM EST·3 min read

• The IDF claimed to have found a Hamas nerve center directly underneath the UNRWA HQ in Gaza.
• The UNRWA's chief said the agency was unaware of what was happening beneath its compound.
• Israel's Ambassador to the UN disputed this, calling on the UNRWA chief to resign in a fiery X post.

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations has called on the chief of a UN agency to resign after it claimed ignorance about what Israel says was a Hamas nerve center directly beneath its Gaza headquarters.

Over the weekend, the Israel Defense Forces said it had discovered "electrical infrastructure" and rows of computer services underneath the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in Gaza City.

Although journalists were invited to visit the site, which Israeli military officials described as a "Hamas intelligence hub," the IDF did not provide definitive proof that Hamas militants had carried out operations in the tunnel, per The Associated Press.

Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the UNRWA, said in an X post on Saturday that the agency "did not know what is under its headquarters in Gaza."

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/un-agency-said-had-no-142536152.html

[stopdiggin]

1. as other agencies and officials have pointed out

there is often an element of "hear no evil, see no evil" in operations within certain occupation zones. (which I think is perfectly plausible)

Whether UNRWA went beyond that point - is probably up to a matter of personal judgment.

[Beastly Boy]

2. How often is often?

How many other examples of "hear no terrorism, see no terrorism" in operations within certain (?) occupation zones can you cite?

[stopdiggin]

4. I'll leave the answer to that

to people that have actually served in those conditions.
And - the "hear no, see no" might not have been the most apt analogy I could have reached for here. Rather, what I have heard described is a tacit acknowledgement (among aid workers) that unsavory things do take place - and that serving the area means 'making peace' to some degree at least, with those hard facts.

[lapucelle]

3. What other officials and agencies have pointed this out? Do you have a link? N/T

[Turbineguy]

5. The ear plugs and the sleep masks worked!

[The Mouth]

6. Yeah, right.