Thread by @HillelNeuer

BREAKING: UN Watch has released parts of a 150-page dossier showing high-level UNRWA staff who are complicit with terrorists and meet with them regularly. 🧵
By @BWBailey85 @FoxNews:
foxnews.com/world/new-repo…

“Before releasing his documentation, Neuer attempted to present it first to UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini. Neuer recounted several attempts to meet personally with Lazzarini, who “cannot claim that we do not show him the evidence in advance.” /2

“Neuer's group released photographs of senior UNRWA staff, including Lazzarini and former UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl, meeting with alleged terror leaders. “You wouldn’t find these photos on UNRWA officials’ own social media,” he said. /3

“Neuer pointed Fox News Digital to two undated photos showing Lazzarini meeting with groups that included members of terror organizations, including the Jihadi Islamic Movement, the Islamic Ansar League, and Hamas.” /4

“In another photo dating back to late 2014, multiple UNRWA regional directors met with senior Hamas member Ali Baraka. Neuer said, and reporting from Al Watan Voice confirms, that the UNRWA staff wanted to “to congratulate [Baraka] on Hamas’ anniversary.” /5

“In another instance, Neuer said he was able to find a photo and transcript from a February 2017 meeting between former UNRWA chief Pierre Krahenbuhl, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and others. Krahenbuhl reportedly told the assembly that “we are united, and no one can separate us.” /6

“Krahenbuhl was investigated in 2019 for reports of ‘sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and other abuses of authority.’ He resigned from his post as UNRWA Commissioner, but in April 2024 was named head of the International Committee of the Red Cross.” /7

“Leading congressional voices requested that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power ‘persuade the ICRC to reconsider this’ given Krahenbuhl’s ‘disastrous tenure’ as UNRWA commissioner-general.” /8

“Fox News asked ICRC about the photos of Krahenbuhl with terror leaders, and of congressional concern about his fitness for the position in the Red Cross. A spokesman said the ICRC ‘was not present in the meeting, so it cannot speak to the full context of the discussion.’ /9

‘They also stated that Krahenbuhl ‘has demonstrated through his work at ICRC and his decades of humanitarian experience that he has one objective: to secure aid to civilians in conflict zones.’” /10

“UN Watch’s latest dossier also includes interviews of UNRWA students taken by local Palestinian film crews over a period of three weeks during the summer of 2024. In one interview...” /11

“...a 14-year-old former student of UNRWA said his school taught him ‘to fight back and resist’. The child later explains that the solution for Jerusalem is to ‘kill the Jews. We get rid of the Jews.’” /12

“Fox News Digital reached out to UNRWA media officials on numerous occasions for its response to the contents of UN Watch and Impact-se dossiers, about allegations that UNRWA schools were not adhering to UNESCO standards, and about Lazzarini’s refusal to meet with Neuer.” /13

“Bill Deere, UNRWA's DC representative, said ‘UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has cautioned against the spread of disinformation against UNRWA,’ which he says ‘is meant to create chaos and divert attention from the political aims to dismantle the Agency.’” /14

On Neuer’s dossier, Deere said, “UNRWA recommends before giving oxygen to accusations like these, double-check the source and question the intent to avoid becoming an echo chamber for disinformation and de facto the fueling of hate and putting other people’s lives in danger.” /15

On UNRWA student interviews, he said, “What they don't tell you is these children were filmed without the knowledge of their parents. The kids were isolated and asked leading questions designed to elicit a response. This is beyond misleading, it's twisted and desperate.” /16