In a sane universe, the discovery of a Hamas data centre and server farm in a tunnel 700 metres long and 18 metres deep directly underneath the headquarters of the UN Works and Relief Agency in Gaza would be of huge significance.
Ariel Kahana reported in Israel Hayom:
I saw with my own eyes the cables connecting UNRWA’s communication room on the first floor of the building to Hamas’ server room exactly underneath it.
Did Thomas White, UNRWA Gaza director since the summer of 2021, not notice the trucks removing soil for years from the compound he managed? Did he not wonder who the people walking around his headquarters were when he didn't employ them? Was he not puzzled by the computers, air conditioners, servers, batteries, cement mixers, cables, tiles, steel doors, and even the motorcycles that arrived in his backyard without him ordering them? Did he not notice the fibers that very strangely dangled from his communication room to an unknown destination underground? Did he never once have a doubt that made him think to report to his superiors at the UN?…
The UNRWA headquarters above ground and Hamas’ “brain” below ground are a physical reality connected by thick cables, and not just as a metaphor…After we again sank into the mud, crawled through the tunnel, walked hunched over for hundreds of meters, and came out into Gaza's trembling skies, the IDF APCs brought us to UNRWA's headquarters. There, among offices, schools, kindergartens, and SpongeBob drawings, the commander of 401st Brigade, Col. Benny Aharon, shows us the agency's own server room.
“We’re in UNRWA’s server room. Coincidentally — I say this cynically — it’s located right above the server room you found underground,” he says. “Notice that all the cables are ripped and disconnected, they left almost nothing, only what they managed to cut off. We’re lucky a few cables remained that they didn’t manage to cut off some of the cables that going down below. They took out all the DVRs and computers from here. Only someone who has something to hide does something like this. What kind of international humanitarian organisation that only has good intentions behaves this way?”
What kind indeed. The discovery of this terrorist server farm, directly beneath UNWRA HQ and with the UNWRA server centre connected through cables through the floor to the Hamas nerve centre directly beneath, would seem to have caught UNWRA bang to rights over complicity with Hamas.
Combine that with the revelation that UNWRA fired a number of its staff after Israeli intelligence produced evidence that twelve of them were involved in the October 7 Hamas pogrom, and the further revelation by UN Watch that more than 3,000 UNRWA staff and teachers celebrated that pogrom and praised the murderers and rapists as “heroes,” and the implications become seismic.
Through one of its agencies, the UN, the world’s supposed guardian and promoter of peace and justice, has been complicit with a terrorist organisation bent upon the genocide of the Jews and destruction of Israel.
But you won’t have read much or indeed any of that in the British and American media. You’ll have read and watched instead the continued demonisation of the Jewish targets of that genocide.
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