Israel Accuses More UNRWA Officials of Participating in Oct. 7 Massacre
5th March 2024
Israel on Monday released recordings it said implicated two more employees with the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks.
The Jewish state posted on X two phone calls it said the staffers, both teachers, made during the massacre in which they referenced being inside Israel and taking female hostages.
“I’m inside. I’m inside with the Jews,” Mamduh Hasin Ahmed Alkali allegedly told a person on the other end of the line.
“Shut up, we have female captives. I caught one,” Yusef Zidan Suleiman al-Hawajara, another UNRWA teacher, can be heard saying in a phone call.
Alkali is part of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, while al-Hawajara is part of Hamas, according to an X post from Israeli spokesman Eylon Levy. Both allegedly operate in the groups’ military organizations. The Washington Free Beacon could not reach the individuals for comment.