New film probes UN agency’s alleged terror ties and claims it fueled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Yonatan Samerano was lone 21, his full beingness up of him, erstwhile helium was murdered by Hamas during the Oct. 7 massacre. But that was not enough. As his assemblage laic connected the ground, lifeless, a video emerged of 2 men dragging him into a car and kidnapping him to Gaza. Yonatan’s assemblage was aboriginal rescued successful a heroic IDF operation, and helium was laid to remainder successful Israel. 

The 2 men were aboriginal identified arsenic unit members of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency successful Gaza. Over the past 2 years, determination person been horrific testimonies astir UNRWA’s engagement connected Oct. 7, including photographs taken by a unit member, recordings of the organization's teachers who boasted astir kidnapping Israeli women, arsenic good arsenic the beingness of violent infrastructure, passageway shafts and a ample fig of weapons successful dozens of UNRWA’s facilities successful the Gaza Strip.

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United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) gathering successful Gaza, June, 2023.  (Ahmed Zakot/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Yet, UNRWA’s engagement did not statesman with the Oct. 7 massacre.

On Dec. 2, the Meyerson JCC successful Manhattan hosted a screening of the documentary "UNraveling UNRWA," sharing the bleak past of an enactment that has for excessively agelong hidden down the veil of humanitarian aid. It exposed the unsafe world of an bureau that became a beforehand for the violent enactment Hamas and whose schools became incubators of antisemitism, indoctrinating hatred into successive generations, frankincense facilitating the genocidal docket that culminated successful the barbaric attacks of Oct. 7.

If Oct. 7 has taught america anything, it is that acquisition matters. What our children larn astatine schoolhouse matters. Their relation models matter. Our elected officials’ behaviour matters.

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Mohammad Abu Itiwi during the October 7th Massacre. The Hamas Nukhba commandant was progressive successful the execution and abduction of Israeli civilians connected October 7th and, according to the IDF, was simultaneously employed by UNRWA. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)

Against this backdrop of shocking revelations and planetary outrage, New York City's Mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, made a deliberate and profoundly troubling choice. A fewer weeks earlier winning the election, helium chose to instrumentality portion successful a "5K for Gaza" tally successful Brooklyn, whose proceeds benefited that precise agency, UNRWA. 

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks to members of the media astatine Flushing Meadows Corona Park successful the Queens borough of New York connected Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

This determination is not a insignificant governmental misstep; it is simply a profound motivation nonaccomplishment that strikes astatine the instauration of our values. To actively enactment an bureau riddled with allegations of violent ties, acquisition radicalization, and information successful the gravest atrocities, signals a unsafe deficiency of motivation clarity and enforcement judgment. It besides suggests an indifference to the information of the Jewish community, which is already grappling with a achy surge successful antisemitism since Oct. 7.

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Yonathan Samerano was murdered by Hamas during the Oct. 7 massacre. The 2 men who reportedly killed him were UNRWA unit members.  (Courtesy: Bring Them Home Now)

"UNraveling UNRWA" continues to archer the communicative of an bureau that has not lone undermined its vocation of resolving the occupation of the then–Palestinian refugees but has besides alienated Israelis and Palestinians by perpetuating successful its schools the Palestinian delusion of Israel’s "disappearance" and the "right of return." By lending his enactment and visibility to this cause, the mayor-elect risks injecting this toxic, zero-sum struggle into our city’s politics, prioritizing ideological purity implicit the well-being and unity of New Yorkers. 

It is casual to enactment quiescent and accidental nothing. To walk by the vocal number connected our streets and cower away. But it volition travel astatine a outgo — to us, to our children and to our society. When we take to look the different way, evil gets emboldened. When we garbage to telephone it by its name, we — and the children of this metropolis — volition wage the price.

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