According to the Shin Bet security service, Wahid Abd Allah Borsh, 38, an engineer in the UN’s Development Program, both funneled resources to the terrorist group and kept Hamas out of trouble with the global organization.
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Borsh confessed that he carried out various tasks for Hamas, the Shin Bet said.
Al-Borsh has been working with the UNDP since 2003, Shin Bet claims he is being directed by a senior Hamas official to use his position in aid the movement.
Last week, the Shin Bet accused Hamas of infiltrating World Vision, an worldwide humanitarian organization, and funneling millions of dollars to the organization.
“Sadly, UNDP has a history of pandering to the Hamas regime in Gaza, including in numerous public statements which have whitewashed Hamas’ weaponization of homes, schools, and hospitals”.
Zuhri denied the accusations, saying they are “false and have no basis”.
If Israel persists in its policy of accusing aid organizations in Gaza, it would face “dangerous consequences”, Zurhi said.
Since 2008, Israel has fought three wars in Gaza with Hamas, which is branded a terrorist organisation by Israel, the United States and the European Union. The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, a human rights group, says such techniques amount to torture.
Aid groups say they are already closely monitoring their operations. For example, he allegedly informed Hamas that armaments or tunnel entrances were found in homes under the UNDP’s authority so that the group could commandeer the site, in clear contradiction of the United Nations organization’s mandate.
During that same year, he “worked to persuade UNDP managers to prioritize the rehabilitation of housing in areas populated by Hamas members, following a request he received from Hamas”.
He is the second humanitarian worker to be charged by Israel in the past week with aiding Hamas.
Earlier on Tuesday, UN Development Program (UNDP) employee was formally charged with assisting Hamas. Halabi siphoned off almost $10 million to fund Hamas terror projects, and ferried physical aid – food, blankets, tents, and much more – from the residents of Gaza for whom they were intended, providing them to members of his al-Aqsa gang.
The arrest of Waheed Borsh, an engineer for the United Nations Development Project (UNDP), follows last week’s indictment of Mohammad al-Halabi, Gaza director of worldwide Christian charity World Vision, who was similarly accused of redirecting some $7 million a year from the charity to Hamas.
There’s another problem. When World Vision has made statements about the conflicts between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and their impact on children, it typically treats Israel with a much rougher hand than it does Hamas. If the same materials were put into reconstruction, the Gazan people would be better off and, lacking this crucial asymmetric warfare capability, Hamas would be less tempted to attack Israel.
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The Times of Israel reports: The Hamas terrorist organization is negotiating a prisoner exchange with Israel that would see the release of two Israeli civilians and the remains of two Israel Defense Forces soldiers held in Gaza in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, an unnamed Hamas official said Wednesday.
