The idea that UNRWA would do this isn’t remotely implausible. Consider these news items:
Hamas sleeper cell and Islamic Jihad discovered working together inside UNRWA June 25, 2019
UNRWA inciting jihad violence against Israel in its Jerusalem schools January 31, 2019
UNRWA schoolbooks in Gaza stress jihad, martyrdom, denial of Israel, and return of “refugees” by force of arms October 30, 2014
UNRWA gives Hamas rockets found in Gaza school back to Hamas July 20, 2014
Why there are civilian casualties in Gaza: Islamic jihadists place rockets in Gaza UNRWA school July 17, 2014
“Palestinians say UNRWA planning to rename schools named after ‘martyrs,'” by Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post, August 8, 2020:
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Saturday denied Palestinian claims that it is planning to rename schools already named after Palestinians and Arabs killed while carrying out attacks against Israel.
Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman for UNRWA in the Gaza Strip, told The Jerusalem Post that reports suggesting that the agency is considering changing the names of more than 50 schools were untrue.
Abu Hasna clarified, however, that UNRWA is currently studying the possibility of changing the names of some of its institutions, but denied that the move was related to names of “martyrs.”
“We are revising the names of all our institutions, not only schools,” Abu Hasna told the Post.
“But the matter is related only to the location of the institutions. For example, in the Zeitoun suburb of the Gaza Strip, we have three schools named Zeitoun School. We are seeking to give names to institutions on the basis of their location. We anyway don’t name our institutions after martyrs. We don’t have a school named after [Hamas founder] Ahmed Yassin. We are not Hamas or Fatah. We abide by the rules of the UN, even concerning the names of our institutions.”
The spokesman noted that even if there is an institution named after the famed Muslim warrior Saladin, that does not constitute a violation of UN rules.
“The main street in East Jerusalem is named after Salah Eddin al-Ayoubi [Saladin],” he said, referring to the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty who led the Muslim military campaign against the Crusader states in the Levant in 1187. “That does not mean the street has to be renamed.”
Despite the denial, several Palestinian groups have criticized UNRWA’s alleged intention to remove the names of “martyrs” from schools in the Gaza Strip.
Sources in the coastal enclave claimed that UNRWA has set up a special committee to devise a plan for urgently renaming 53 schools named after Palestinian and Arab “martyrs” and “symbols.”
The move came in response to Israeli and American “pressure” and in the context of efforts to “liquidate the right of return” for refugees and their descendants to their former homes in Israel, the sources said….
Idol and Icon says
Time will reveal their lies. Perhaps a school may be renamed after a BLM thug!
mortimer says
The UN is contradicting its own principles.
The schools should be named after people who have made contribution to literature, science and culture, rather than named after a terrorist who murdered unarmed civilians.
The UN should not support schools that suggest to students that they should commit war crimes.
gravenimage says
“Palestinians” say UNRWA planning to rename its schools after jihad terrorists, UNRWA issues denial
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Who can be surprised?