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UNRWA schools ‘hijacked by Hamas,’ watchdog report warns

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A leading independent watchdog organization published a report this work, on how the Hamas terrorist movement took control over the education system in Gaza and Lebanon from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
The watchdog group — UN Watch — titled its 220-page report «Schools in the Grip of Terror: How UNRWA Allowed Hamas Chiefs to Control Its Education System.»
According to the report, «These case studies show in detail how Hamas has hijacked UNRWA’s education through its domination of the local UNRWA staff unions, particularly the teachers’ sectors of the unions, enabling Hamas to control UNRWA schools — the physical facilities, teachers, and curriculum — including by preventing the agency from implementing changes to de-radicalize the curriculum, blocking efforts by UNRWA to discipline staff for inciting antisemitism and jihadi terrorism, and placing Hamas operatives in senior educator positions in schools.»
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency building in Gaza City in June 2023. (Ahmed Zakot/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital, «The Administration has determined UNRWA is irredeemably compromised and now seeks its full dismantlement along with the return of remaining unspent funds. Other U.N. agencies and other more effective international partners are more than capable of stepping in to provide essential lines of support.
«As stated in President Trump’s February 4 Executive Order regarding ending funding or reviewing support for certain U.N. and international organizations, ‘UNRWA has reportedly been infiltrated by members of groups long designated by the Secretary of State (Secretary) as foreign terrorist organizations, and UNRWA employees were involved in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.»’
The spokesperson concluded, «President Trump and Secretary Rubio have long stated that Hamas will never govern Gaza again. That includes institutions they have infiltrated to sustain their power and influence.»
Telling examples of Hamas control over UNRWA’s education system are, according to UN Watch, the expulsion of Matthias Schmale, a senior member of UNRWA’s international staff who headed the agency’s Gaza operation in 2021 because he issued an apparent pro-Israel remark in a media interview.

Hamas terrorists stand in formation as Palestinians gather on a street to watch the handover of three Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on February 8, 2025. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
UN Watch alleged «it took less than 10 days» for UNRWA’s Palestinian leaders on the ground, Amir Al-Mishal, then head of the UNRWA Gaza Staff Union, who coordinated with his predecessor Suhail Al-Hindi, to oust Schmale.
Suhail Al-Hindi publicly appeared with Hamas terrorist leaders for many years while working for UNRWA, UN Watch wrote. UNRWA refused to fire Al-Hindi. The U.S. and Europe have classified Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization.
UN Watch accused UNRWA of failing to dismiss «Fateh Sharif, who had served for years simultaneously as the head of the UNRWA Lebanon Teachers’ Union and as a senior leader of Hamas in Lebanon.»
Hillel Neuer, executive director, UN Watch, said «For years, governments have been writing billion-dollar checks to UNRWA believing they were investing in peace and tolerance. Our investigation reveals the shocking truth: UNRWA’s classrooms have been hijacked by Hamas and turned into incubators of hate. Donor states must confront the reality that they are financing terror by proxy.»
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The scandal-plagued UNRWA has bounced from one corruption and terrorism scandal to the next over the years, including aiding Hamas terrorists in the mass murder of Israeli Jews and Americans.
Fox News Digital reported in 2024 that former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel has evidence that dozens of individuals employed by UNRWA participated in the massacre of more than 1,200 people on Oct. 7, 2023, in southern Israel.

Palestinian students study in a classroom on their first day back at Haifa school administered by UNRWA in Beirut’s southern suburb on Sept. 3, 2018.
In August, Fox News Digital obtained a U.S. State Department public assessment to Congress, stating, «The administration has determined UNRWA is irredeemably compromised and now seeks its full dismantlement.»
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Juliette Touma, a spokeswoman for UNRWA, told Fox News Digital that, «This report is part of a disinformation campaign that this organization, the so-called UN watchdog, has been launching against UNRWA for years now. Their reporting is full of unsubstantiated claims and clearly aims at destroying the agency which, at its heart, has provi[ded] education and health care in place where no one else actually wants to work with a group of people that is one of the most vulnerable in the region.»
Touma dismissed the report, claiming, «By the way to say most cases referred to in the report as new are not new. 90%, if not more, are already known to us.he vast majority have been found as unsubstantiated.»
The US government stopped funding UNRWA because of its support for Hamas terrorists.
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Kagan turns on liberal ally Jackson with footnote jab over free speech

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson drew fire from an unlikely colleague on Tuesday over her lone dissent in the Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision finding Colorado’s ban on so-called «conversion therapy» for minors violated free speech rights.
Fellow liberal Justice Elena Kagan criticized Jackson for failing to acknowledge case law that governs when speech can be regulated in the medical field, marking a rare public break between two justices typically aligned in cases centered on high-profile cultural issues.
«Justice Jackson’s dissenting opinion claims that this is a small, or even nonexistent, category,» Kagan wrote in a footnote of a concurring opinion, which Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined. «But even her own opinion, when listing laws supposedly put at risk today, offers quite a few examples.»
Kagan, an Obama appointee, said Jackson’s view «rests on reimagining—and in that way collapsing—the well-settled distinction between viewpoint-based and other content-based speech restrictions.»
SUPREME COURT SKEPTICAL OF «CONVERSION THERAPY» LAW BANNING TREATMENT OF MINORS WITH GENDER IDENTITY ISSUES
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The 8-1 decision on Tuesday arose from a lawsuit brought by Kaley Chiles, a licensed Christian therapist, who argued her conversations with youth clients were a form of protected speech. The Colorado government had said the conversations amounted to professional conduct that the state was allowed to regulate.
Jackson’s fiery 35-page dissent, which she read from the bench when the high court announced the opinion, was longer than the majority opinion and Kagan’s concurrence combined.
«Professional medical speech does not intersect with the marketplace of ideas: ‘In the context of medical practice we insist upon competence, not debate,’» Jackson, a Biden appointee wrote, later adding, «Treatment standards exist in America.»
Jackson issued an ominous warning about national implications of the case, as about two dozen other states have laws similar to Colorado’s and will now need to take into account the high court’s ruling.
SUPREME COURT BLOCKS COLORADO’S SO-CALLED ‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ BAN ON FIRST AMENDMENT GROUNDS

The Supreme Court is seen on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (Annabelle Gordon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«Ultimately, because the majority plays with fire in this case, I fear that the people of this country will get burned,» Jackson said. «Before now, licensed medical professionals had to adhere to standards when treating patients: They could neither do nor say whatever they want.»
One conservative lawyer on social media observed that Kagan seemed «exasperated» by Jackson, who has become known as a verbose justice inclined to tack on lengthy solo dissents to the majority’s opinions in prominent cases. Manhattan Institute’s Ilya Shapiro agreed.
«That should be a separate descriptor of an opinion: concurring, dissenting, expressing exasperation with Justice Jackson,» Shapiro wrote on X.

Justice Elena Kagan (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
Kagan joined the eight justices in finding that the Colorado government erred in regulating Chiles’ practice because the state used a 2019 law that only banned therapists from counseling minors if the therapy entailed advising them on how to resist becoming transgender or gay. That amounted to restricting one viewpoint, in violation of the First Amendment, the majority said.
Kagan said that if the law were «content-based» rather than «viewpoint-based,» it would present less of a free speech problem.
«Because the State has suppressed one side of a debate, while aiding the other, the constitutional issue is straightforward,» Kagan said. «It would, however, be less so if the law under review was content-based but viewpoint neutral.»
Jackson argued that Chiles was «not speaking in the ether; she is providing therapy to minors as a licensed healthcare professional.»
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The Supreme Court’s ruling was narrow, as Justice Neil Gorsuch explained in the majority opinion, as it directed the lower court to reexamine the Colorado law and ensure it did not interfere with Chiles’ speech rights.
«The First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country,» Gorsuch wrote. «It reflects instead a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely, and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering truth. However well-intentioned, any law that suppresses speech based on viewpoint represents an ‘egregious’ assault on both of those commitments.»
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La vida de la Nobel de paz Narges Mohammadi corre peligro en una prisión iraní

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La coalición internacional que trabaja por la libertad de Narges Mohammadi alertó este martes de que la Premio Nobel de la Paz iraní se encuentra en peligro inminente de muerte en la prisión de Zanjan, en el noroeste del país, después de que las autoridades le negaran atención hospitalaria tras un episodio ocurrido el 24 de marzo en el que fue hallada inconsciente durante más de una hora con síntomas compatibles con un infarto. El régimen no respondió públicamente a las denuncias.
La red de apoyo, que integran la Fundación Narges, Reporteros Sin Fronteras, PEN America y Front Line Defenders, publicó el comunicado desde París tras la visita que el equipo legal realizó el 29 de marzo a la prisión. Encontraron a Mohammadi pálida, debilitada y con una pérdida de peso significativa. Fue conducida a la sala de visitas por una enfermera del centro.
Según la coalición, las compañeras de celda relataron que el 24 de marzo Mohammadi fue hallada inconsciente con los ojos en blanco. La enfermería del centro le prestó atención básica, pero las autoridades se negaron a trasladarla a un hospital o permitirle consultar con un especialista cardiólogo. No es la primera vez que sufre un episodio de este tipo: según sus partidarios y fuentes recogidas por AP, la activista padeció varios infartos durante encarcelamientos anteriores y fue sometida a una cirugía de urgencia en 2022.
El cuadro clínico descrito por su equipo legal incluye fuertes dolores de cabeza, náuseas, visión doble, fluctuaciones graves de la presión arterial y hematomas visibles. Estos últimos son consecuencia, según la coalición, de su violenta detención el 12 de diciembre de 2025 en Mashhad, cuando agentes del régimen la arrestaron durante el funeral de un abogado. Su defensor iraní, Mostafa Nili, denunció en febrero que los golpes en la cabeza durante el arresto y los interrogatorios le provocaron mareos y problemas de visión que persisten.
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La situación se agravó en febrero cuando Mohammadi fue trasladada sin previo aviso —en contravención de la ley de procedimiento penal iraní, según su defensa— desde un centro del Ministerio de Inteligencia en Mashhad hasta la prisión general de Zanjan. Allí está recluida junto a internos condenados por delitos violentos y bajo una vigilancia reforzada que ha dificultado el contacto con el exterior. Los bombardeos del conflicto entre Estados Unidos e Israel contra Irán afectan las comunicaciones en la región y añaden una amenaza directa sobre los reclusos.
“Alojar a Mohammadi con delincuentes violentos a pesar de su grave enfermedad cardiaca y sus recientes traumatismos, sumado a las condiciones de guerra y las explosiones que amenazan la vida de los prisioneros, agrava esta amenaza”, subrayó el comité directivo de la coalición. La red exigió a Teherán un permiso médico de salida inmediato y el acceso garantizado a atención especializada, asesoría legal y contacto con su familia.
Mohammadi, de 53 años, ha sido arrestada en trece ocasiones y condenada en diez por cargos que van desde conspiración contra la seguridad nacional hasta propaganda contra el Estado. El Comité Nobel Noruego le concedió el galardón en 2023 por su lucha contra la opresión de las mujeres y la defensa de las libertades fundamentales en Irán. Sus dos hijos, a quienes no ve desde 2015, y su marido, Taghi Rahmani, viven exiliados en París.
Cumple actualmente condenas acumuladas de hasta 18 años. El 7 de febrero de 2026, un tribunal revolucionario de Mashhad la sentenció a seis años adicionales por conspiración y a dieciocho meses más por propaganda. Mientras el conflicto remodela Oriente Próximo, su caso revela cómo el régimen iraní convierte la cárcel en un instrumento de represión lenta contra quienes se atreven a documentar sus abusos desde dentro.
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