BULLETIN
August 24, 2025
By Pelle Zackrisson
Hamas's chief in Lebanon was the boss of 2,000 UNRWA teachers. Norway's current foreign ministry director-general, Leni Stenseth, went to Gaza to apologize to the now-slain terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar. And 90 percent of the Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 massacre were trained in UNRWA schools.
These revelations come from an interview with Hillel Neuer, executive director of the watchdog organization UN Watch. Neuer had strong ties to Sweden through his friend Per Ahlmark, former leader of the Liberal Party who died in 2018. Ahlmark served as European co-chair of UN Watch for 20 years, and the organization annually awards the Per Ahlmark Award for moral courage.
“Per was my friend. I went to Stockholm for his 70th birthday celebration and he used to fly to Geneva for our events. Each year we give out the Per Ahlmark Award to people who have moral courage,” Neuer said.
He praised the Swedish government’s decision to stop funding UNRWA.
“I want to commend the Swedish government. My understanding is that in December the government announced they would no longer give money to UNRWA but instead increase aid to Palestinians through other agencies. That was the right decision,” Neuer said.
Sweden has been one of UNRWA’s largest donors for decades. Is there any separation between UNRWA and Hamas in Gaza?
“In Gaza they’ve taken over completely. They control the staff union with 13,000 employees. The head of UNRWA’s union sits on Hamas’s political bureau. He’s one of the few who survived — over half of the political bureau has been eliminated by Israel. He fled to Turkey a few years ago.”
“UNRWA’s own legal advisor said that 90% of Gazans are alumni of UNRWA schools. That means 90% of the barbaric murderers who raped and murdered on October 7 attended UNRWA schools,” Neuer said.
UN Watch has documented UNRWA’s indoctrination of Palestinian children for decades. What does it look like?
“We’re releasing a report next month showing that UNRWA’s education system is completely infiltrated by Hamas. We’ve interviewed children who say they learned to kill Jews. They all want to become Hamas fighters. The message in schools is that Gaza is not your home, your home is there, and they point to Israel. They call it the ’right of return’ — but it means October 7.”
Sweden’s Social Democrats and the left are pushing for Sweden to resume funding. What do you say to them?
“They have to answer to the evidence. We have hundreds of pages of documentation on our website with screenshots of UNRWA teachers praising jihadi terrorism. If they care about Palestinian children, why do they let Hamas terrorists be their teachers and principals for decades?”
Is Fatah and its leader Mahmoud Abbas — the Social Democrats’ sister party — a legitimate peace partner?
“The best thing you can say about Fatah is that they’re not Hamas. But there’s not much more to say than that. Abbas is in the 20th year of his four-year term. He’s a dictator who tortures those who dare to oppose him. He denies the Holocaust and says the Jews deserved it.”
Abbas’s government continues the “pay for slay” policy where terrorists and their families receive compensation for attacks against Israelis.
“Fatah doesn’t want their own state either. When they were offered 97% of the land they wanted, Arafat responded with an intifada with hundreds of suicide bombings. They also want Israel’s destruction,” Neuer said. | 
