From breitbart.com

Outrage is intensifying after Israeli hostages recently freed from Gaza revealed they were held in U.N. facilities during their captivity, with critics calling UNRWA a “front for Hamas” that must be “disbanded” immediately.

Last weekend, three Israeli women — Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher — were released in a high-stakes prisoner swap, which saw Israel free 90 Palestinian detainees, including convicted terrorists.

The women, who endured nearly a year and a half of harrowing captivity under the terrorist group Hamas, described being detained in United Nations facilities, including tent camps and humanitarian zones administered by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Israel’s Channel 13 News reports.

Additionally, reports indicate they were held at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

The former hostages are now undergoing rehabilitation, following severe conditions that included long periods in underground confinement without sunlight. One woman recounted being subjected to a medical procedure without anesthesia, underscoring the inhumane treatment they faced.

In response to the revelations, critics took to social media to express outrage.

“We need to confirm @EliseStefanik as UN Ambassador ASAP and hold the UN accountable for this. It’s despicable that the @UN has still not condemned Hamas terrorists for holding three women hostage in UN shelters for civilians in Gaza,” wrote Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida.

“If the UN prefers to work closely with terrorists instead of working with the United States and Israel to get our hostages home, they don’t deserve a single cent of our taxpayer dollars,” he added. “It’s been 474 days – BRING THEM ALL HOME.”

“How we do know it was UNRWA? Because UNRWA told us. They boasted about it: ‘UNRWA runs all UN shelters,’” wrote Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.

“We already knew that UNRWA employed Hamas terrorists, shared its infrastructure with Hamas, and allowed Hamas to use its facilities as bases of operations,” wrote FDD Senior Advisor Richard Goldberg. “Now, we learn it also provided a safe haven for Hamas to hold hostages.”

“We need to stop thinking about UNRWA as merely a supporter of Hamas and start internalizing the extent to which the agency is a front for Hamas,” he added.

Activist and writer Hen Mazzig, a senior fellow at The Tel Aviv Institute, underscored failures of international organizations such as the U.N., Red Cross, and Amnesty International, highlighting their silence on the hostage crisis and complicity in Hamas-linked activities.

“This happened under your watch, @antonioguterres, yet you’ve said nothing or taken responsibility—just as you and @DrTedros stayed silent when a hostage revealed she was held captive in a hospital,” wrote Moshe Emilio Lavi, whose brother-in-law is currently being held hostage in Gaza. “Hamas constantly weaponises the @UN, and you enable it. You have failed us.”

“Don’t act surprised. Hamas held our hostages in United Nations facilities in Gaza. The United Nations, and the Hamas run and infested UNRWA must be disbanded, but they won’t,” wrote filmmaker Avi Abelow. “We are on our own. Not only do Western leaders not really care, they are complicit.”

“Not to worry, we Jews have survived 3,000+ years of exiles and persecutions,” he added. “We will overcome this generation of evil against us as well.”

“The hostages were held in United Nations UNRWA facilities. Trump is defunding UNRWA. Trump is against terrorism. Hope this clears things up,”  wrote journalist Eve Barlow.

UNRWA, created to aid Palestinian refugees after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War — launched by Arab nations aiming to annihilate the newly established state of Israel — now supports nearly six million people by redefining refugee status to include descendants, a move critics say deviates from global norms and perpetuates conflict.

The matter comes as UNRWA facilities in Gaza, long accused of harboring Hamas operatives and enabling terror activities, faces heightened scrutiny as Israel moves to ban the agency over security concerns.

On Wednesday, President Trump’s U.N. nominee Elise Stefanik denounced “anti-Semitic rot” in the global organization, which she described as a “den of antisemitism,” as she pledged reforms to protect U.S. interests during her Senate confirmation hearing.

On Tuesday, President Trump halted UNRWA funding as part of his sweeping first-day actions.

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From jpost.com

Senior researcher at the Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University explains the developments in the Gaza Strip in context of the hostage deal and the ceasefire.

“From Hamas’s perspective, they are making a major comeback as a dominant force in Gaza,” Dr. Michael Milshtein, a senior researcher at the Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, told 103FM on Thursday regarding the developments in the Gaza Strip in the context of the hostage deal and the ceasefire.

“Their situation is not bad. It’s terrible for us to say this because we wanted to see a battered, beaten, and maybe even barely existing organization. Yesterday, the education system in Gaza announced that schools will soon reopen, even though 85% of schools no longer exist. 6,000 Hamas police officers have been deployed throughout the strip, making it clear to everyone who is in charge and signaling that there’s no point in talking about the ‘post-war era,'” he said.

“We need to get into the mindset of many Palestinians, especially Hamas – in their view, the price was worth it. In their count, 50,000 died, and the destruction of Gaza is the justified price for the harm caused to Israel and for their national pride. I’m not justifying them, but that is their narrative, and it’s time we understand that,” he added.

“The mainstream sentiment is one of authentic achievement. Blinken spoke about 4,000 new recruits to Hamas, and that’s just from the past few months. They will use the near future to rebuild. This means organization structures, new appointments of commanders, and attempts to locate weapons’ wherever possible.”

Milshtein continued and addressed the statements made by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said that the fighting must not stop: “I’ll say where Smotrich is wrong. I also want Hamas to cease to exist, but the war banner managed here over the last 15 months has not been advancing us toward that goal. The deal saved us from getting stuck in a war of attrition without boundaries and without a clear strategy. I don’t think the strategy managed over the past year and a half could have led us to the downfall of Hamas.”

“Here, we need to adopt a long-term view. The immediate future should be invested in freeing the hostages. At the same time, a long-term plan should be prepared, not just for the next few days, on how to completely dismantle Hamas,” he added. “This is real planning for the conquest of all of Gaza, which doesn’t currently exist.

Mission accomplished?

“With all due respect to Smotrich’s statements, they remain good as slogans. I couldn’t understand how, after four months of intense fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, we reached the goal of dismantling Hamas. The proof was on Sunday when you saw that almost everywhere, people returned to work. Yesterday, Hamas waved one of the major symbols of this statement – the commander of Beit Hanoun, whom we thought we had killed, ended up being still alive.”

When asked about the future, he said: “This is a journey for many years. This is not an event that will end in a few months or even a few years. Therefore, long-term planning is needed, which we did not have on October 7.

“With all due respect to the plans formulated here over the last 15 months, these were not in-depth plans. After we enter the deal, we need to start looking at the future and planning long-term moves. There is no way to continue living with Hamas in the long term, and we believe that this will change the way we thought it would before October 7. I don’t know if this leadership style is fit for this, but I hope that future leaders will learn from these lessons. source

Brethren, is this what Netanyahu promised concerning the Hamas devils? NO – he promised that he would not rest until this terrorist group was annihilated!

Where is the righteous anger which poured from Bibi as he spoke of ultimatums? Where are the promises that Hamas would never be in power again over the Gaza Strip?

I believe that Trump knows that Hamas will kill again – they don’t know anything else except terror and the slaughter of Israelis!

We know they will attack again, so let’s see if Trump makes good on his promise that ‘All hell will break loose in the Middle East if this happens.’ 

To not make good on his threat would surely be a sign of extreme weakness.

MARANATHA!