{"id":108965,"date":"2024-10-01T04:10:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108965"},"modified":"2024-10-01T04:10:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:10:45","slug":"top-hamas-commander-killed-in-lebanon-was-unrwa-employee-placed-on-administrative-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108965","title":{"rendered":"Top Hamas commander killed in Lebanon was UNRWA employee placed on administrative leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>GENEVA (AP) \u2014 The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said a top Hamas commander killed in Lebanon Monday was one of its employees but had been suspended since allegations of his ties to the militant group emerged in March.<\/p>\n<p>Fatah Sharif\u2019s connection to Hamas appeared set to ratchet up pressure on UNRWA, already facing a $80 million funding shortfall this year. Critics have repeatedly blasted the agency, saying it wasn\u2019t doing enough to root out Hamas militants from its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N.\u2019s internal watchdog has been investigating UNRWA since <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/un-unrwa-staffers-fired-oct-7-cc33d0ab25dc4bacc0af1db10705e0d6\">Israel in January accused<\/a><\/span> 12 of its staffers of being involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which armed militants killed 1,200 people and abducted some 250 others. The allegations led more than a dozen donor countries to suspend their funding, causing an initial cash crunch of about $450 million dollars. Since then, all donor countries except for the United States have decided to resume funding the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas said Sharif was killed with his wife, son and daughter in an airstrike on Al-Buss refugee camp, one of 12 dedicated to Palestinian refugees in the country, in the southern port city of Tyre. The Israeli military confirmed it had targeted him.<\/p>\n<p>Sharif was not open about his affiliation with the group and its armed wing.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/un-unrwa-staffers-fired-oct-7-cc33d0ab25dc4bacc0af1db10705e0d6\">Israel has previously alleged<\/a><\/span> the UNRWA has been infiltrated by the Palestinian militant group. <\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s diplomatic mission in Geneva posted on X saying that Hamas announced Sharif\u2019s death, \u201cAnd guess what was the second job of Mr Sharif? He was a principal, head of @UNRWA teachers association in Lebanon.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The mission added: \u201cThis case proves that there is a deep problem in @UNRWA, the way they do due diligence about who they are hiring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said he learned in March of allegations that Sharif had been a \u201cmember of the political party of Hamas\u201d and decided to suspend him and launch an investigation \u201cfrom day one.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Lazzarini said he hadn\u2019t heard Sharif might be a Hamas \u201ccommander\u201d until Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo he was suspended, had no function, was not paid and was under investigation,\u201d Lazzarini told reporters in Geneva. \u201cWe are still an agency with due process \u2014 I mean, respecting due process and the principle of rule of law. So the investigation was ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lazzarini said he had received a letter from Israeli authorities listing the names of some 100 people allegedly linked to Hamas, and he took it \u201cvery seriously.\u201d But he said Israeli authorities never responded to UNRWA requests for more information so that it might launch investigations into those cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA list is not proof of anything,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>A Hamas statement praised Sharif for his \u201ceducational and jihadist work\u201d and called him \u201ca successful teacher and an outstanding principal\u201d for generations of Palestinian refugees.<\/p>\n<p>The UNRWA teachers\u2019 union and other Palestinian groups had periodically staged protests in front of the U.N. agency\u2019s office in Beirut since Sharif\u2019s suspension, alleging it targeted him for his political stances. Earlier this month, the union staged a sit-in during a visit to Lebanon by Lazzarini, saying it awaited \u201cpositive and fair outcomes\u201d in the case of his suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has been sharply critical of UNRWA and Lazzarini\u2019s leadership of it. <\/p>\n<p>In July, David Mencer, a spokesman in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-gaza-17-07-2024-palestinians-642bf7ae6f2e7bd36ce14157bb5666a6\">called the longtime Swiss diplomat<\/a><\/span> \u201cone of the bad guys, a terrorist sympathizer, a Jew-killing enabler, a liar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric responded by saying the comments were \u201creprehensible\u201d and threatening.<\/p>\n<p>UNRWA has 32,000 staff in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinian territories, including 13,000 in Gaza who provide education, health care, food and other services to several million Palestinians and their families. <\/p>\n<p>Its facilities in Gaza, where thousands of Palestinians have sought shelter, have been repeatedly attacked. Lazzarini said 223 UNRWA staffers have been killed in Gaza during the war, a toll that the United Nations says is the highest ever in a single conflict for employees of the world body. <\/p>\n<p>The Israeli offensive in Gaza has killed 41,615, according to the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-59470820308b31f1faf73c703400b033\">Gaza Health Ministry<\/a><\/span> which doesn\u2019t distinguish between civilians and combatants. <\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Associated Press Writer Abby Sewell in Beirut contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lebanon-hamas-commander-killed-unwra-employee-israel-999ec22c1fef953f4f1b8b40a4c95b35\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA (AP) \u2014 The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said a top Hamas commander killed in Lebanon Monday was one of its employees but had been suspended since allegations of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108965\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}