The Israeli military led an international team of journalists through a half mile long tunnel, dug partially under a United Nations school, that eventually led to a complex filled with computer servers, air conditioning units, two bathrooms, and a ton of batteries to ensure a constant power supply. The underground complex was a central intelligence hub for HAMAS before being abandoned by HAMAS during a hasty withdraw as Israeli Defense Forces stormed the area. That HAMAS would build a tunnel under a UN school to make the subterranean structure a politically sensitive target is not surprising. What is more surprising is that above the complex with the computer servers and bathrooms is the headquarters for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine located in Gaza. What's even more surprising is that holes were dug and wires run from the electrical room in the basement of the UNRWA to the secret complex in order to provide the large volume of electricity needed to power the massive computer servers.

As the tunnel and complex were being built, part of the parking lot began to sink. Everybody inside the building knew what was going on, as such occurrences were not uncommon in Gaza. Likewise, high level officials at UNRWA would have been made aware of the otherwise unexplained surge in electricity usage when all the computer servers and air conditioners went online. However, they failed to investigate what was going on, either out of negligence or complicit support. After Israel announced that a number of UNRWA workers were found to be participating in the October 7th, 2023 attacks thanks to the discovery of their corpses and via cell phone activity on the day, it caused the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, and several other countries (17 in total) to pull funding for UNRWA almost immediately. According to declassified Israeli intelligence; which is some of the most reliable in the world; approximately 10% of UNRWA's work force is aligned with either the political or military wing of HAMAS. Worse, an enormous 25% of the male employees at UNRWA are affiliated with HAMAS. Israel notes that across Gaza, only 15% of the male population is affiliated with HAMAS. It certainly seems as though the UNRWA was intentionally supporting HAMAS by rewarding approximately 1,300 HAMAS activists and fighters with relatively high paying jobs and other benefits. In the UNRWA headquarters, Israeli forces also discovered HAMAS propaganda throughout the facility.

When confronted about this, the UNRWA said a lengthy "independent" investigation would be necessary, but stressed that everyone should keep sending money to UNRWA in the meantime because they're the only ones that can deliver aid to Gaza. Unfortunately for UNRWA, most of the civilized world seems to be in agreement that the kind of aid UNRWA is providing is not the kind of aid they want to be sending with their citizens' tax dollars. In lieu of funding UNRWA, the Biden Administration has wisely decided to instead send those tax dollars to the World Food Program and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and others with fewer ties to terrorism and hate groups.

Indeed, an investigation into UNRWA, whose only mission is to provide humanitarian relief to the Palestinians, is extremely long overdue. Had Israel had all of this intelligence on the level of complicity with a terrorist group like HAMAS and reported it before the invasion, I would have thought it was a disinformation campaign. I never would have believed UNRWA was literally powering a central intelligence hub and protecting it like an international human shield above the surface. I never would have expected the UNRWA to have 1,300 HAMAS terrorists on the payroll.

Israeli intelligence knew most of this before the invasion. Why then, I wonder, did it take the United States and the Biden Administration so long to learn about this and take action by at least pulling UNRWA funding immediately upon the October 7th attacks or even earlier. I find it difficult to believe that Israeli intelligence was able to figure this out, but the CIA wasn't.

Truthfully, I think the UNRWA should be dissolved. With other groups like UNICEF and the World Food Program being mobilized in Gaza, it makes no sense to have an entire UN agency dedicated only to relief in Palestine. UNRWA needs to go away.