(Israel Hayom) Nadav Shragai - The Gaza branch of UNRWA uses school textbooks that teach jihad against Israel and some of its institutions have been taken over de facto by Hamas. The teaching staff has been infiltrated by terrorists and operatives of terrorist groups, and its institutions served as launching sites for rockets and mortar shells fired at Israel. Hamas has been in control of UNRWA's workers' union for many years. Dozens of activists in the Al-Qassam Brigades started out as activists in Hamas' Islamic Bloc in UNRWA schools, notes Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi. Dr. Arnon Groiss has studied 150 textbooks used in UNRWA schools, and found that these books encouraged violent struggle against Israel. These textbooks also contain expressions of hatred against Jews and Israel, false information that negates the Jewish and Israeli presence in Israel, portrays the Jewish holy sites as Islamic sacred sites that were stolen from Muslims, and ignores Israel's presence almost completely. According to Halevi, Hamas' partial takeover of UNRWA's institutions should sound the alarm regarding the possibility that funds from donor countries, including the U.S. and Canada, are being used to pay the salaries of Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives.
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