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Documenting the Enablers of Hamas War Crimes: UN Agencies, Government Aid Programs and NGOs
(Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg - UN agencies, government aid programs and NGOs have consistently and willfully aided and abetted Hamas as it built its vast terror infrastructure in Gaza. They diverted aid money to Hamas to fund its terrorist activities, provided propaganda and disinformation support to Hamas in its efforts to tarnish and discredit Israel, and indoctrinated Gazan schoolchildren to hate Jews. Systematic documentation of the complicity of Hamas enablers and allies is now required. Evidence of their involvement and behavior - specifically with respect to the large-scale theft of aid for construction of the massive terror infrastructure beneath Gaza and tens of thousands of lethal rockets - is available in numerous photographs and videos from the IDF. It strains credulity to claim that the heads of UNRWA - the largest aid framework operating in Gaza - were unaware of the Hamas activities under and in the immediate proximity of their facilities and residences. By carefully examining the activities of the organizations operating under international humanitarian aid frameworks, policies can be formulated to prevent a repetition of this behavior. The writer, a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, is emeritus professor of politics at Bar-Ilan University and president of NGO Monitor.