Guterres shields compromised UNRWA, attacking Israel while dismissing overwhelming evidence of Hamas infiltration.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres sharply condemned Israel on Monday after police enforced a lawful seizure order at the shuttered UNRWA compound in Jerusalem’s Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood—despite the facility being inactive for over a year under Israeli legislation banning the agency’s operations. Guterres claimed the compound was “inviolable,” insisting Israel had “no right” to inspect the premises or remove equipment connected to outstanding debts.
Invoking the International Court of Justice, Guterres accused Israel of violating UN privileges and immunities, demanding that authorities “restore and uphold” UNRWA’s status. Yet observers noted he made no mention of the agency’s well-documented collaboration with Hamas, nor of the Israeli evidence exposing UNRWA staff’s participation in the October 7 atrocities—the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
Israel Police stated that the search and seizure were strictly administrative, carried out under a property order related to unpaid debts by UNRWA. Footage of officers raising the Israeli flag on the building’s roof symbolized Israel’s assertion of sovereignty in Jerusalem and its rejection of UN bodies that continue enabling Hamas propaganda and operational penetration.
UNRWA, long accused of acting as Hamas’s civilian arm, has faced unprecedented scrutiny since Israel’s 2024 intelligence dossier revealed that agency teachers, logisticians, and administrators directly aided the October 7 attacks. Even Guterres’ hand-picked review panel admitted “neutrality issues” inside the organization—though it attempted to shield UNRWA by downplaying the scale of infiltration.
Despite countless examples of UNRWA’s radicalization, indoctrination, weapons storage, and terror collaboration, the ICJ still ordered Israel to funnel aid through UN agencies deeply compromised by Hamas. Israel and the United States criticized the ruling as dangerously naïve. Guterres, continuing his pattern of singling out Israel while ignoring Palestinian terror networks, again accused the IDF of possible “war crimes”—a claim critics say reflects bias rather than fact.
