by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – A recently released Israeli who was kidnapped to Gaza by Hamas on Oct. 7 has said that he was held captive in an attic for nearly 50 days by a teacher from UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the Jerusalem Post reports.
The Palestinians are the only people in the world to have their own UN agency: UNRWA caters to some five million people living in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority-run of the West Bank. The vast majority of the Palestinians supported by UNRWA are descendants of Arabs who were displaced from formerly British-mandate Palestine during the 1948 war launched against the just-declared state of Israel by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Yemen.
The released hostage has not been named but his story was publicized on the X/Twitter social media platform by Israel’s Channel 13 journalist Almog Boker, JPost reports. The hostage said the UNRWA teacher who was responsible for guarding him was the father of 10 children; the teacher barely supplied the hostage with food or medical attention during his captivity.
A separate report documents several teachers at UNRWA schools in Gaza publicly praising Hamas for the Oct. 7 attack on Israel in which the largest number of civilian Jews were killed, tortured, and taken into captivity in one day since the Holocaust, JPost said.
That report further showed that more than 100 Hamas terrorists graduated from UNRWA schools, JPost said.
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