UN fires 12 employees over allegations of Oct. 7 involvement

The State Department is temporarily pausing funding for the UNRWA while reviewing allegations that 12 employees were involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

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[elenamonteagudo]

Fires? We want our money back and those terrorist behind the bars 🤬

[VanceSterley]

UN secretary general needs to be fired and held on criminal charges.

[gracewomack]

...those 12 should be dealt with as war criminals...

[Godloveseventheleast]

There are hundreds of UN workers part of Hamas.

[aguynamedscott]

The UN sure is efficient. It only took them four months to fire employees who committed murder, kidnapping and rape while employed by the UN. Most employers would have called their employees into HR the same day. Seriously though, the UN needs to be dissolved.

[tcc]

Just 12 UNRWA staff? UN Watch already has documentation of a telegram group of 3000 UNWRA staff celebrating Oct 7 attack last Dec. 😮

[hoanglannguyen]

What about those that kept hostages for Hamas? Returned hostage has said that he saw UNRWA teacher bag hanging in the house he was kept in

[helenerickson]

The International Criminal Court must initiate a criminal investigation hearing.

[gataiamanu]

Where do you think they hire these people from? They've infiltrated the UN, refugee camps, schools, hospitals and the entire Palestinian government in Gaza but the UN wants to send them aid with no contingency plans to insure that UN aid doesn't end up in Hamas warehouses. If Israel doesn't root them out this time around then this invasion would have been for nothing.

[philmaurischat]

Fired ... but not arrested or charged with a crime. They're gone in the wind.

[brianazmy]

When I was young I remember UNICEF Donation Coin cards in our classrooms. How many of those kids I helped feed only to become ISIS as adults? Now this? The U.N. is a swamp which needs draining in order to be effective.

[astalavistababy-go]

Why fire them so soon ? Why not suspend them until after the investigation ? Methinks it's cause there's more involved and they know immediately what they were doing.

[advancetotabletop]

“ Last year alone, according to the U.N. Chief Executives Board, the United States provided $18.1 billion to the U.N. system. This represented more than a third of all government revenue received by the U.N. system in 2022. Both in dollar terms and as a percentage of total government contributions to the U.N. system, U.S. contributions are at a 10-year high.“ — Heritage Foundation, 2023

[bryandale]

These are not the evil actions of a few, but endemic of the whole terrorist organization

[BibiFathimaHansa-zszq]

The still does not show what the hostages were saying. They were pleading for a ceasefire. They never pleaded to be releases

[press-biased.inconceivable]

It is imperative that not solely those employees who are directly involved be dismissed. But all the employees who were aware of the existence of terrorists infiltrated in UNRWA and the UN must be fired. It is implausible to conceive that a significant number of individuals have been overlooked by both staff members and supervisors, as only incompetence could account for such absurd. It's easy to spend other people's money instead of your own.

[KevinStDenis]

Surprised liberal media is even reporting this….

[bryandale]

UNRWA must be held accountable for those evil crimes against humanity they perpetrated

[hoanglannguyen]

Only 12 UNRWA workers took part in Hamas massacre on Oct 7? Would have though more than this

[FredSmith-st]

There will NEVER be any actions taken against these terrorists.