This report presents an updated review of educational activities organized by UNRWA schools in Gaza, whose administrative officials were recently identified as Hamas military operatives. This link to Hamas is based on new intelligence collected by Israel since October 7th, which identified twelve UNRWA employees in the Gaza Strip holding senior positions (schools principals, deputies, directors and deputy directors of training centers) as members of Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.1 The intelligence shows that over 10% of the 510 employees in UNRWA's education system in the Gaza Strip, who hold senior positions, are members of Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both of which are designated terror organizations. Two of the Hamas-member UNRWA employees were principals of schools under which Hamas tunnels were built, as revealed by UNRWA itself: Al-Maghazi Boys Preparatory School B, and Al-Zaytun Boys Preparatory School A. The document contains examples from these schools, originally published in our previous March 2023 report,2 and new examples from other schools based on an initial review of their material.
