UNRWA meets with designated terrorist group Islamic Jihad

Palestine Today reported Tuesday, "Bassam Mowad, the head of political relations for the Islamic Jihad Movement in the North [Lebanon], accompanied by Hajj Abu Ali Siddiq, met this morning with the [UNRWA] director of services in the Beddawi camp, Mr. Abu Adel Ahmed. During the meeting, they discussed the latest developments in the service situation of UNRWA in the camp."

Among the topics discussed was how to set up a cash for work program for young people that is funded by Germany.

Apparently, UNRWA has no problem partnering with a terrorist group and discussing with them how to spend money.

Mowad no doubt is considered a political, not a military, leader. But Islamic Jihad doesn't make those distinctions itself.  Mowad himself praised the October 7 massacre in a recent speech celebrating the "martyrdom" of three Islamic Jihad terrorists.

To be sure, the camps have quasi-governmental "popular committees" that do some of the trappings of local governance, and UNRWA probably needs to have some interaction with them (anbd they, in turn, pressure UNRWA to bend to their will.) These committees are made up of representatives of lots of terror groups like Hamas, Fatah, the PFLP and Islamic Jihad. But to meet with Islamic Jihad alone cannot be justified as being part of normal UNRWA interfaces with the logal government. 

The "military wing" of Islamic Jihad is just as much part of the Beddawi camp as the "political wing." On October 7, the Islamic Jihad Al Quds Brigades handed out candy to residents of the camp.

This is who UNRWA partners with. 

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