The mask is off. Hamas has openly declared that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is not merely a humanitarian agency—it is the cornerstone of the Palestinian nationalist agenda. While critics have long accused UNRWA of sustaining Palestinian statelessness in perpetuity, Hamas has now inadvertently confirmed it.
For decades, Israel and its advocates have warned that UNRWA functions less like a neutral aid organization and more like a political weapon designed to undermine the Jewish state. Unlike the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which works to resettle and resolve refugee status, UNRWA operates under a unique mandate—granting hereditary refugee status to Palestinians across generations, regardless of current citizenship or actual displacement. The result: a growing and permanent “refugee” population that exists largely on paper and political grievance.
Now, as Israel and its partners work to deliver life-saving humanitarian aid to Gazans through new channels, Hamas is lashing out in a fury—terrified not of hunger, but of losing the narrative war.
Hamas Issues Direct Threats to Humanitarian Workers
In a chilling development, Hamas has issued direct threats to aid workers operating independently of UNRWA, specifically those collaborating with Israeli and American-backed efforts such as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
“Hamas would rather we starve than the American aid project succeed.”
— Center for Peace Communications (@PeaceComCenter) June 6, 2025
Hamas is working overtime to discredit the GHF — by threatening hungry Gazans against taking food aid and shooting those who defy them — and global media is playing along.
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A Hamas communiqué, described as menacing and precise, warned local aid personnel:
“We are fully aware of everything you are doing, and all your movements are being monitored with extreme precision. You will not be forgiven for your involvement in projects that harm the dignity of our people and serve suspicious agendas under the guise of humanitarian work... This is your final warning: Continuing down this path will have severe consequences.”
The message is clear: feeding Gazans through channels not sanctioned by Hamas or tied to UNRWA will be treated as treason.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation condemned recent threats by Hamas against its American and Palestinian aid workers, as well as Gazans receiving aid.
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) June 8, 2025
GHF highlighted the irony of Hamas endorsing UNRWA while attacking other aid initiatives. Emphasizing that it has already… https://t.co/4saXucZPSD pic.twitter.com/c3fQeR8pGx
Terror Factions Fear UNRWA's Collapse Could End Palestinian ‘Refugeehood’
The threats were echoed in a joint declaration circulating widely across pro-Hamas Telegram channels, attributed to the so-called "Palestinian Resistance Factions."
“The main goal of the so-called American aid distribution centers is to end UNRWA’s mission and liquidate the Palestinian cause as a political issue, transforming it into a relief and humanitarian one,” the statement declared.
This remarkable admission underscores what Israel has long alleged: UNRWA is essential not for providing relief, but for maintaining the political fiction of permanent victimhood. The statement confirms that UNRWA, established on the surface to be a humantiarian organization, is in fact a crucial element in the "Palestinian struggle" that is seemingly never eneding, despite the numerous opportunities for a Palestinian State that have been offered over the last eight decades.
The resistance factions went even further, urging Gazans to reject what they labeled “Zionist occupation tricks,” while authorizing their militant security wings to take action against any individual seen as cooperating with Israel’s humanitarian operations.
“We warn all our people against being lured by any false promises from the Zionist occupation or its mercenaries... All resistance forces have full authority to strike anyone aiding these enemy plans.”
While Hamas Threatens, GHF Feeds the People
Meanwhile, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—an American-backed NGO operating in cooperation with Israeli forces—continues its groundbreaking work to get food into the hands of starving civilians without empowering terror factions.
GHF distributed 1.1 million meals today at three sites in Rafah and Wadi Gaza, bringing the total to 10.1 million meals since operations began.
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 8, 2025
Israel is feeding the Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/X5PXGfpbXP
On Sunday alone, over 1.15 million meals were successfully distributed across Gaza. The food, transferred to local Gazan merchants for wide-scale dissemination, reached citizens in multiple districts including the embattled city of Rafah.
This bold, alternative aid structure—outside UNRWA’s reach—offers an unfiltered lifeline to Gaza’s population and undermines Hamas’s control over international aid.
According to GHF sources, aid distribution on Sunday was carried out without a single violent incident—a stark contrast to Hamas-controlled areas, where civilians are often shot at for approaching non-Hamas aid routes.
L: Suhail al-Hindi, former head of 30,000 UNRWA employees' union — and member of the Hamas Political Bureau in Gaza.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 6, 2025
R: Yahya Sinwar, fellow member of Hamas Politburo who masterminded the October 7th massacre.
Remember: UNRWA is Hamas. pic.twitter.com/SbPJ7RT0IS
Conclusion: The War Behind the War
Hamas’s hysterical reaction to alternative humanitarian efforts isn’t about food—it’s about fear. Fear that Gazans might finally receive aid without political strings. Fear that the myth of eternal refugeehood may collapse. Fear that Palestinians might begin to see a life beyond the terror-controlled narrative that has entrapped them for generations.
As Israel and its partners redefine humanitarian outreach, bypassing agencies that have long been politicized, the truth is being exposed: For Hamas, UNRWA is not about aid—it is about agenda.
