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Palestinian student stripped of UK visa after Gaza remarks wins human rights appeal (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Allegations of 9 people in an organization of 12.000 being Hamas is one thing.

Extrapolating that to all UNRWA funding going to Hamas is an amazing stretch of reality.

By the way can you link the Hamas announcement of this person being Hamas? The AP article does not link it. It quotes the IDF claiming Hamas said it.

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...what?

UNRWA admits he was working with Hamas and had suspended him, but you need Hamas themselves to say it?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No UNRWA is not saying that either. The media is saying Israel claims that Hamas said that he was Hamas.

I actually went through quite a few articles and even translated the Arab page linked on Wikipedia which turned out to be complete gibberish. So I am currently wondering if this entire thing is made up because it really looks like it.

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-hamas-commander-killed-unwra-employee-israel-999ec22c1fef953f4f1b8b40a4c95b35

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said a top Hamas commander killed in Lebanon Monday was one of its employees but had been suspended since allegations of his ties to the militant group emerged in March.

Literally the first paragraph.