UN Staffer Holds Israeli Man Hostage in Gaza Attic for 50 Days, Report Claims, and Senator Blackburn Demands Answers

Not for the first time, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency is implicated in heinous acts that are contrary to its stated mission.

AP/Mohammed Zaatari
The backyard of a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency at Sidon, Lebanon, September 12, 2023. AP/Mohammed Zaatari

Senator Blackburn wants to know why a United Nations employee in Gaza reportedly kept an Israeli man hostage in his attic for 50 days. The man, who was recently released, had been abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7 and, according to a report by Israel’s Channel 13, said that the UN staffer was a teacher employed by the global body’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.

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