Canada To Restore UNRWA Funding As New Terror Evidence Emerges

“We have sabaya, I captured one!” Yousef al-Hawajara boasted to his friends on Oct. 7, 2023.

Sabaya is the term ISIS used for their captured women, the sex slaves they took from Yazidi settlements. In just-released recordings of some of the terrorists who took part in the Oct. 7 attacks, that word was being used to describe a young Israeli woman taken hostage.

It’s a troubling recording because al-Hawajara was a teacher at the UNRWA elementary school in Deir al-Balah school in Gaza. UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, is an organization that Canada has funded and is about to fund again.

In fact, International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen was scheduled to make the announcement on Wednesday morning that Canada was restoring funding to UNRWA. A media advisory had gone out to announce the event in Mississauga, featuring Canada’s United Nations Ambassador Bob Rae, and the story of the restored funding had been carefully leaked to CBC, which of course made no mention of this new evidence.

That news conference was abruptly cancelled late Tuesday.

Hussen’s office, when contacted, said the event was cancelled due to logistics and did not comment on new evidence released on Tuesday by Israel showing UNRWA employees engaged in terrorism.

Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, released the call from al-Hawajara and others early Tuesday. In a recorded statement posted online, Hagari read out the names of several UNRWA teachers and other aid workers who are part of…   terror groups in Gaza, including Hamas.

“Over 450 UNRWA employees are military operatives in terror groups in Gaza,” Hagari said.

“This is no mere coincidence, this is systematic. There is no claiming ‘We did not know.’”

Yet, it seems the Trudeau government doesn’t want to know about the deep involvement of Hamas in UNRWA; it wants to look the other way.

When Israel released evidence in January that at least 12 UNRWA employees took an active part in the Oct. 7 terror attacks, the Trudeau government announced that they would pause funding for UNRWA. It was a false pause, though, because they had already given UNRWA tens of millions in aid money, despite the warnings of involvement and complicity in the terror attacks.

The next payment from Canadian taxpayers to UNRWA wasn’t due until April, and now it appears that payment will go ahead. Meaning UNRWA didn’t suffer at all from Canada’s pause on sending aid money, and we will reward a group rife with problems.