Internal documents confiscated by Israel’s military show that at least 20 people working for a United Nations aid agency were also fighters with Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Hamas documents shared with New York Times show that most UNRWA employees are senior school administrators, and many of them also double as militants for Hamas.

These detailed records detail the weapons that were issued to each fighter as well as their physical fitness and military specialties. Ahmad al-Khatib was, for example, a deputy principal in a Gaza elementary school while also serving as the commander of a Hamas squad. Al-Khatib has been working for UNRWA in Gaza since 2013. According to records, he was issued 12 weapons by Hamas during his time there.

The Israeli military acquired the documents as part of its regional multifront war against Hamas, Hezbollah and other terror groups that are proxies of the Iranian regime. Israel has been battling Hamas since the October 7,2023 massacre, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 civilians. It was the worst attack against Jews since the Holocaust.

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The Times, although it could not independently confirm the documents, observed similarity to other Hamas files that the outlet possesses. It matched names and identification numbers with a UNRWA database. The Times also interviewed former UNRWA staff and students from Gaza schools in order to get a clearer picture of Hamas’s presence at UNRWA schools.

These documents provide the latest evidence of the U.N.’s apparent links to Hamas. This suspicion has been growing for years, especially since Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

In January, Israeli intelligence discovered that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in the attack on October 7. This discovery led the U.S. as well as other nations to stop funding the agency. The U.N. investigated Israel’s findings and found that nine UNRWA staff members were involved in the October 7 massacre.

Israeli forces discovered a massive Hamas data centre in February after terrorist prisoners captured revealed its location. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini claimed that he was unaware of the data centre, but the Israeli military denied this claim.

Israel also killed in Lebanon a Hamas leader who was also the head of a UNRWA teacher’s union. He had been suspended for his ties to a terrorist group. Israel maintains that approximately 10 percent of UNRWA’s 12,000 staff members are linked to Hamas, or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (another terrorist group in Gaza).

UNRWA accused Israel of conducting a smear-campaign to discredit it and place its staff in danger. The agency has called for new regulations in order to curb the spread of Israeli ‘disinformation’ and urges advertisers to stop it.

This campaign has caused UNRWA to suffer a serious reputational blow. UNRWA is the leading humanitarian organization in Gaza, where people are suffering from a brutal war. UNRWA warned that these ads could put UNRWA staff at risk.

In the early part of this year, the Israeli parliament passed laws that prohibited UNRWA’s operation in the Jewish State and prevented Israeli government agencies from keeping contact with the organisation. This legislation bans UNRWA’s operations in Gaza and West Bank due to its terrorist ties.