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The IDF discovered and demolished another tunnel, this time in the Al-Mu’azi camp in central Gaza.

In New Square, the massive Sukkah is already being put up. (It takes a few weeks).

  Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced the revocation of visas for Australian representatives to the Palestinian Authority after Australia barred MK Simcha Rothman from entry and signaled plans to recognize a Palestinian state, adding that Israel’s embassy in Canberra will closely review future Australian visa applications.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Sunday ridiculed the BBC for once again publishing a false and distorted story about Gaza in order to portray Israel as a villain rather than Hamas.

Israeli security forces have arrested a 24-year-old Palestinian woman on suspicion of spying for Iran, amid an intensifying campaign by Tehran to infiltrate Israeli institutions and recruit operatives on the ground. The arrest, carried out on August 6 by the IDF and police from the Etzion station, was confirmed Monday by Channel 12 News. A military court has since extended her detention by eight days as the investigation continues. The woman, a resident of Beit Ummar—a town located northwest of Chevron—was in communication with an Iranian handler and admitted during interrogation to carrying out tasks on their behalf. While she initially confessed only to parts of the allegations, she later acknowledged the full extent of her involvement, including developing a direct relationship with a “hostile entity.” The investigation is being led by the Shin Bet, with assistance from IDF intelligence branches. Authorities are now working to substantiate the suspect’s admissions through technological analysis and intelligence-gathering efforts, while the military prosecution prepares to bring formal charges. The case is the latest in a series of Iranian-linked espionage attempts that have alarmed Israeli officials in recent years. Nearly two years ago, Israeli intelligence foiled a scheme in which three Palestinians and two Israeli-Arabs were recruited by an Iranian intelligence officer living in Jordan. The group, reportedly tasked with spying on senior Israeli figures—including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir—was arrested before executing their plans. More recently, in July 2025, Israel’s State Attorney’s Office indicted a Jewish Israeli citizen of Iranian origin on charges of espionage. According to the indictment, the man and his partner, who was based in Iran, met with Iranian officials in Turkey in 2024. Prosecutors say that following these meetings, the man provided sensitive information to Iranian agents using encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram, both upon request and of his own initiative. Israeli officials say the growing pattern of such cases reflects a broader strategy by Iran to wage asymmetric warfare inside Israeli territory, beyond the battlefield and into the private lives of its citizens. Authorities have declined to release further details about the woman’s alleged missions or what intelligence may have been compromised. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Swiss watchmaker Swatch apologized Monday for an ad campaign that upset consumers in China and elsewhere and said it had “immediately removed all related materials worldwide.” In an image for the Swatch Essentials collection, an Asian male model is shown pulling the edges of his eyelids upward and backward with his fingers — a gesture seen as derogatory and racist, Swiss public broadcaster SRF reported. Swatch wrote on Instagram that “we sincerely apologize for any distress or misunderstanding this may have caused.” It said it would “treat this matter with the utmost importance.” SRF reported that the apology was also posted on the Chinese social network Weibo in Chinese and English. (AP)

David Lubin, the father of Israeli Border Police Officer Sgt. Rose Lubin hy”d, who was murdered in a 2023 terror attack in Jerusalem, has become the target of antisemitic harassment near his home in Atlanta, Georgia. In a disturbing post on Facebook, Lubin shared details of an encounter with a neighbor – Mark and Anna Bouzyk – that turned hateful and aggressive. “This is what antisemitism looks like in real life,” he wrote. “Months ago, my neighbor put a sign in their yard with the slur ‘Kike’ written 21 times. Today, they still keep their pro-Palestine signs up… but rip down my Rose stickers whenever they see them.” The confrontation escalated when Lubin attempted to replace one of the stickers commemorating his daughter. A video posted by the watchdog group StopAntisemitism shows a woman screaming at Lubin on his own street. When Lubin asked, “Is it okay that my daughter was murdered?” the woman replied, “Your daughter was wearing an IDF uniform.” Lubin calmly corrected her, explaining that Rose was a police officer, not a soldier. “She was wearing a uniform—she went there to murder,” the woman continued, with a man by her side adding, “How many Palestinians are killed there every day?” Sgt. Rose Lubin was fatally stabbed in a November 2023 terrorist attack at Herod’s Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City. The attacker, a 16-year-old resident of the Isawiya neighborhood, targeted security personnel near the Shalem police station with a knife before being neutralized by forces on site. Lubin was critically wounded and died hours later. Law enforcement has not yet commented publicly on the incident. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Monday afternoon announced that Israel has made a decision to expel Australian representatives to the Palestinian Authority from the country in the wake of Canberra’s announcement earlier on Monday that it has banned MK Simcha Rothman from entering the country. Of course, the move is also in response to Australia’s recent announcement that it intends to soon recognize a Palestinian state. “I decided to revoke the visas of Australian representatives to the Palestinian Authority,” Sa’ar said. “The Australian Ambassador to Israel was just notified on the matter.” “I also instructed the Israeli Embassy in Canberra to carefully examine any official Australian visa application for entry to Israel.” “This follows Australia’s decision to recognize a ‘Palestinian state’ and against the backdrop of Australia’s unjustified refusal to grant visas to a number of Israeli figures, including former Minister Ayelet Shaked and the Chairman of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, MK Simcha Rothman.” “While antisemitism is raging in Australia, including manifestations of violence against Jews and Jewish institutions, the Australian government is choosing to fuel it by false accusations, as if the visit of Israeli figures will disrupt public order and harm Australia’s Muslim population.” “It is shameful and unacceptable!” Sa’ar asserted. (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

Ukraine’s future could hinge on a hastily assembled meeting Monday at the White House as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy brings with him an extraordinary cadre of European leaders to show U.S. President Donald Trump a united front against Russia. The European political heavy-hitters were left out of Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last Friday, and they’re looking to safeguard Ukraine and the continent from any widening aggression from Moscow. By arriving as a group, they hope to avoid any debacles like Zelenskyy’s February meeting in the Oval Office, where Trump chastised him for not showing enough gratitude for American military aid. The meeting also is a test of America’s relationship with its closest allies after the European Union and the United Kingdom accepted Trump’s tariff hikes partly because they wanted his support on Ukraine. Monday’s showing is a sign of the progress and the possible distress coming out of the Alaska meeting as many of Europe’s leaders descend on Washington with the explicit goal of protecting Ukraine’s interests, a rare and sweeping show of diplomatic force. “It’s important that America agrees to work with Europe to provide security guarantees for Ukraine, and therefore for all of Europe,” Zelenskyy said on X. The night before the meeting, however, Trump seemed to put the onus on Zelenskyy to agree to concessions and suggested Ukraine couldn’t regain Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, setting off an armed conflict that led to its broader 2022 invasion. “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight,” Trump wrote on social media. “Remember how it started. No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE. Some things never change!!!” Zelenskyy appeared to respond with his own post, saying, “We all share a strong desire to end this war quickly and reliably.” He went on to say that “peace must be lasting,” not as it was after Russia seized Crimea and part of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine eight years ago, and “Putin simply used it as a springboard for a new attack.” The sitdown in Alaska yielded the possible contours for stopping the war in Ukraine, though it was unclear whether the terms discussed would ultimately be acceptable to Zelenskyy or Putin. Upon arrival in Washington, Zelenskyy said in another social media post: “We all equally want to end this war quickly and reliably.” He expressed hope that together with the U.S. and European countries Ukraine will be able to force Russia to “true peace.” European heavyweights in Washington Planning to join Zelenskyy in America’s capital are European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. On the table for discussion are possible NATO-like security guarantees Ukraine would need for any peace with Russia to be durable. Putin opposes Ukraine joining NATO outright, yet Trump’s team claims the Russian leader is open to allies agreeing to defend Ukraine if it comes under attack. Trump briefed Zelenskyy and European allies shortly after the Putin meeting, and details from the discussions emerged in a scattershot way that seemed to rankle the Republican U.S. president, who had chosen not to outline any terms when appearing afterward with […]

As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides television service to Ukraine. Instead of normal programing, Ukrainian viewers saw parade footage beamed in from Moscow: waves of tanks, soldiers and weaponry. The message was meant to intimidate and was an illustration that 21st-century war is waged not just on land, sea and air but also in cyberspace and the reaches of outer space. Disabling a satellite could deal a devastating blow without one bullet, and it can be done by targeting the satellite’s security software or disrupting its ability to send or receive signals from Earth. “If you can impede a satellite’s ability to communicate, you can cause a significant disruption,” said Tom Pace, CEO of NetRise, a cybersecurity firm focused on protecting supply chains. “Think about GPS,” said Pace, who served in the Marines before working on cyber issues at the Department of Energy. “Imagine if a population lost that and the confusion it would cause.” Satellites are the short-term challenge More than 12,000 operating satellites now orbit the planet, playing a critical role not just in broadcast communications but also in military operations, navigation systems like GPS, intelligence gathering and economic supply chains. They are also key to early launch-detection efforts, which can warn of approaching missiles. That makes them a significant national security vulnerability, and a prime target for anyone looking to undermine an adversary’s economy or military readiness — or deliver a psychological blow like the hackers supporting Russia did when they hijacked television signals to Ukraine. Hackers typically look for the weakest link in the software or hardware that supports a satellite or controls its communications with Earth. The actual orbiting device may be secure, but if it’s running on outdated software, it can be easily exploited. As Russian forces invaded Ukraine in 2022, someone targeted Viasat, the U.S.-based satellite company used by Ukraine’s government and military. The hack, which Kyiv blamed on Moscow, used malware to infect tens of thousands of modems, creating an outage affecting wide swaths of Europe. National security officials say Russia is developing a nuclear, space-based weapon designed to take out virtually every satellite in low-Earth orbit at once. The weapon would combine a physical attack that would ripple outward, destroying more satellites, while the nuclear component is used to fry their electronics. U.S. officials declassified information about the weapon after Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, issued a public warning about the technology. Turner has pushed for the Department of Defense to provide a classified briefing to lawmakers on the weapon, which, if deployed, would violate an international treaty prohibiting weapons of mass destruction in space. Turner said such a weapon could render low-Earth orbit unusable for satellites for as long as a year. If it were used, the effects would be devastating: potentially leaving the U.S. and its allies vulnerable to economic upheaval and even a nuclear attack. Russia and China also would lose satellites, though they are believed to be less reliant on the same kinds of satellites as the U.S. Turner compared the weapon, which is not yet ready for deployment, to Sputnik, the Russian satellite that launched the space age in 1957. “If this anti-satellite nuclear weapon would be put in space, it would be the end of the space age,” Turner said. “It should never […]

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Sunday ridiculed the BBC for once again publishing a false and distorted story about Gaza in order to portray Israel as a villain rather than Hamas.   Earlier on Sunday, Israel’s COGAT (Coordinator of Government Activities) debunked a fictitious story published by the BBC, the Guardian, AP, and Italian media that a 20-year-old Gazan woman died on Friday after being flown from the Strip to an Italian hospital due to “severe malnourishment,” omitting the fact that she was critically ill with leukemia.   Huckabee retweeted a statement by journalist Melanie Phillips about the story: “Israel helps evacuate cancer sufferer from Gaza to Italy,” Phillips wrote. “She dies there of leukemia. BBC suggests Israel starved her to death. To the BBC, even cancer is Israel’s fault.”   Huckabee added, “Will the BBC retract the story and apologize? Of course. The same day a Baskin Robbins opens a franchise in hell.” (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

Two police officers were shot and killed in a northern Utah city and a man was taken into custody, authorities said Monday. The officers were responding to a domestic disturbance call Sunday in a neighborhood in Tremonton. A sheriff’s deputy and a police dog who also responded were wounded and were hospitalized in fair condition, police said. After the officers were shot, bystanders persuaded the man to put down his weapon, police said. SWAT teams responded to clear the home and verify that there was no further threat, police said. “Upon arrival, they immediately began taking fire,” Police Detective Crystal Beck of neighboring Brigham City told reporters earlier. “They requested additional units. And then stopped answering their radio.” The man was arrested on charges of aggravated murder, police said in a news release. His name was not immediately released. Tremonton, which has about 10,000 people, is about 75 miles (121 kilometers) north of Salt Lake City. (AP)

Australia’s Interior Minister Tony Burke announced on Monday morning that the entry visa of Religious Zionist MK Simcha Rothman, the chairman of the Knesset’s Constitution party, has been revoked. The announcement was made only hours before Rothman’s flight to Down Under, where he was scheduled to make a series of speeches at shuls and schools and meet with victims of antisemitic attacks. Burke explained the decision by saying, “Our government takes a hard line on people who seek to come to our country and spread division. If you are coming to Australia to spread a message of hate and division, we don’t want you here.” However, Burke failed to quote any examples of Rothman’s quest to “spread division,” only citing statements that could be attributed to millions of Israelis, including his opposition to a Palestinian state and statements such as “the Hamas terror group must be destroyed.” Robert Gregory, the head of the Australian Jewish Association (AJA), which invited Rothman, stated, “The purpose of Mr. Rothman’s visit was to show solidarity with Australia’s Jewish community, which is facing a wave of antisemitism. AJA had arranged for him to meet with victims, visit targeted Jewish institutions, and address numerous Jewish schools and synagogues. I have just returned from Israel and can attest that there is growing alarm there about the situation for Jews in Australia under the Albanese government. The visit was not in any way connected to current events in the Middle East.” “This is a viciously antisemitic move from a government that is obsessed with targeting the Jewish community and Israel.” “All the paperwork was filled out correctly and on time, and the visa was approved. The timing of the cancellation at the last minute was spiteful and intended to cause maximum harm to the Australian Jewish community. Mr. Rothman received his cancellation on the day he was to head to the airport for his flight.” “This government has a track record of cancelling the visas of Jewish and Israeli visitors, including Ayelet Shaked and Hillel Fuld. The message from the Albanese Government to Jews is clear, and we urge all Jews to seriously consider whether it is safe for them to visit Australia under this government.” “AJA is hearing from increasing numbers of Australian Jews who feel unwelcome under this government and are planning to leave. It seems the government is happy to replace them by importing thousands of Gazans.” “Israel is fully justified in taking strong measures in response to this, and we have briefed contacts in the Trump Administration who are also concerned about events in Australia.” The AJA also published a statement accusing Albanese of supporting Hamas. “LABOR STANDS UP FOR HAMAS,” the statement began. “AJA can confirm that one of the written reasons the Australian Government gave for banning Knesset Member Simcha Rothman is because his statements calling for ‘the elimination of Hamas’…have been received by members of the Australian community as inflammatory and concerning.” “Who exactly are these ‘members of the Australian community’ who support Hamas, a proscribed terrorist group, and why aren’t they in prison instead of deciding policies for Tony Burke?” “‘Jews not welcome’—is this the message that the Albanese government is trying to send? Simcha is just the latest Jew to be banned by a government which is obsessed with […]

Hours after a massive rally in support of the hostages, hundreds of demonstrators marched from Hostages’ Square to the nearby headquarters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, where chaos unfolded late Sunday night. Protesters lit a bonfire outside the Metzudat Ze’ev building and attempted to push toward its entrance, but were blocked by heavy police presence. Videos circulating on social media show officers grappling violently with demonstrators, who were banging drums and chanting slogans denouncing the government’s handling of the hostage crisis. The clashes quickly escalated as police shoved back crowds determined to reach the Likud offices. The dramatic standoff marked the latest eruption of public fury over the hostages still held in Gaza. While the Tel Aviv rally earlier in the evening had drawn tens of thousands in a show of solidarity, the confrontation at Likud headquarters underlined the mounting anger now directed squarely at the government. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Explosive revelations in the widening “Qatargate” investigation allege that Qatar secretly funneled millions of dollars to top advisers of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to improve the Gulf nation’s international image, Kan reported Sunday. According to law enforcement officials cited in the report, Perception Media — a firm owned by Yisrael Einhorn, a former Netanyahu campaign strategist — was paid $45,000 a month for two years by Qatari interests. Of that sum, investigators say, $18,000 was directed each month to Netanyahu aide Jonatan Urich, while $11,000 went to fellow aide Eli Feldstein. The payments, totaling an estimated $10 million over several years, were allegedly made while both men were working inside the prime minister’s circle of power. At the center of the Qatargate probe are suspicions that Urich and Feldstein committed multiple criminal offenses, including illicit contact with a foreign agent, corruption tied to lobbying efforts, and secret dealings with businessmen linked to Doha. While Urich and Feldstein are the primary focus, the probe has now widened. Security officials confirmed that both the Shin Bet and police are examining the involvement of additional former defense and intelligence figures with financial and political ties to Qatar. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

The Imperial War Museum is under fire for refusing to correct a glaring error in its Holocaust exhibit, after experts condemned its description of the Nuremberg Laws as “nonsense” and “reprehensible.” A caption in the museum claims that under the 1935 laws, “a person was defined as Jewish based on how many observant Jewish grandparents they had.” In reality, the antisemitic legislation made no mention of religious observance. It designated anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents as Jewish, regardless of personal practice, and classified those with one or two as Mischlinge (mixed race). The laws stripped Jews of German citizenship and banned them from marrying or having relations with ethnic Germans. A retired New York academic who spotted the error during a visit told The Guardian that while the museum’s exhibits were otherwise “extraordinarily impressive,” this misrepresentation “must be changed.” “It disregards the vast majority of the Jewish population who are not observant,” she said. “The Nazis aimed to eradicate all Jews, observant or not. To imply otherwise is misleading and reprehensible.” Holocaust experts backed her complaint. Historian Christopher Browning, a key witness in the David Irving libel trial, explained that what mattered to the Nazis was whether a grandparent’s birth had been registered with a Jewish community. “The grandparent could later even have converted to Christianity, but if the grandparent had been registered as Jewish at birth, that for the Nazis was the deciding factor.” Timothy Snyder, an authority on Nazi crimes, said bluntly: “It did not matter whether the grandparents were observant … No one was saved from persecution by having grandparents who were not observant.” He added that the caption’s wording creates a false impression that secular Jews might have been spared while religious Jews were targeted. “This is nonsense,” Snyder said. Dr. Robin Douglas of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism echoed the criticism, saying the museum’s text wrongly suggested that Nazi criteria depended on “a piously observant Jew in adult life” rather than on whether Jewish ancestry was recorded at birth. “The fact that the Nazis ultimately fell back on a religiously-determined criterion of Jewishness exposes the emptiness of their supposedly scientific ideas,” he said. Despite repeated appeals, Imperial War Museum director general Caro Howell defended the caption in an email, saying the institution would “stand by the curatorial choices that we have made and that our expert advisers have reviewed.” She warned that changing text whenever “interpretative nuance” was raised would undermine the museum’s integrity. When the academic forwarded expert testimony to the museum, Howell cut off correspondence, writing that the debate “risks sowing division among people who really should pull together.” A museum spokesperson later insisted the caption had been “rigorously reviewed and edited by IWM’s curators, a number of leading international scholars and members of Jewish communities.” They added that “it is inevitable that questions of interpretation will be raised.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is calling for the federal government to lift the veil on what she describes as extraordinary — and classified — evidence of unidentified craft and so-called “interdimensional beings.” Speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience this week, Luna detailed her work as chair of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets under the House Oversight Committee, as well as her own experiences during her Air Force service. “Based on the photos that I’ve seen, I’m very confident that there’s things out there that have not been created by mankind,” Luna told Rogan, adding that the phenomena are referred to by officials as “interdimensional beings” capable of operating “through the time spaces that we currently have.” Pressed by Rogan on whether she’d personally witnessed such events, Luna was candid: “Have I seen a portal open? No. Have I seen a spaceship personally? No. Have I seen evidence of this? Yes. Have I seen photo documentation of aircraft that I believe were not made by mankind? Yes.” Luna cited testimony from “very credible people” who reported movements “outside of time and space,” including an incident near Vandenberg Air Base in which witnesses — among them a pilot — described a massive red cube in the sky “bigger than a football field.” She also recounted a personal encounter from her time as an airfield management specialist at Portland Air National Guard Base, when an “airspace incursion” left Air Force pilots “outperformed” by an unidentified aircraft. “They’re like, ‘Eh, we can’t really talk about it,’” Luna said, noting that pilots fear being stripped of flight status if they speak publicly about such sightings. Luna says much of the documentation remains classified, but argues it’s time for the government to release more information to the public. “Transparency is key,” she said — especially when the evidence, in her view, challenges the boundaries of what humanity believes is possible. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Former Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler has admitted he was “completely wrong” to label the COVID-19 lab leak theory as “doubtful” in 2020 — a headline he now admits fueled mistrust in fact-checking and misrepresented the uncertainty at the time. Speaking in an interview with theeditors.com founder Ira Stoll, Kessler confronted the fallout from the March 2020 fact check headlined “Was the new coronavirus accidentally released from a Wuhan lab? It’s doubtful.” Kessler said he personally added the “it’s doubtful” line — a decision he now regrets. “One of the reporters on the piece came up to me the next day and said, ‘I think you made a real mistake by putting “it’s doubtful” here. Because I’m uncertain where it stands, and you framed it in a way that made it seem more definitive than what we came up with,’” Kessler recalled. “That’s on me. I screwed up… I was completely wrong about this.” Kessler argued that the original fact check focused primarily on debunking claims that COVID-19 was a bioweapon, rather than fully addressing the broader possibility of an accidental lab release. Still, he conceded that the definitive-sounding headline — and his own public comments — overshadowed the nuance in the piece. At the time, the fact check declared that scientific evidence “strongly supports” a natural origin and suggested that “too many unexpected coincidences” would be required for a lab leak to be plausible, while acknowledging China’s refusal to provide more information. But Kessler himself wrote on Twitter in 2020 that it was “virtually impossible” for the virus to have come from a lab. In 2021, as new information emerged, Kessler revised his assessment, writing that the lab leak theory had “suddenly become credible.” He partially blamed his earlier skepticism on the Trump administration’s handling of the claim, saying officials relied on “vague intelligence” and packaged it with anti-China rhetoric that made it easier for critics to dismiss. The Washington Post was among the earliest outlets to reject the lab leak theory outright, calling it a “coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked” in February 2020. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A veteran international aid worker has lodged a bombshell whistleblower complaint with the Inspector General of USAID, accusing the United Nations’ top humanitarian agencies — including the World Food Program (WFP) and the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) — of “gross misconduct” and the deliberate obstruction of aid delivery to civilians in Gaza. The detailed allegations, obtained by Fox News Digital, raise questions about the misuse of U.S. taxpayer funds and possible political interference at the highest levels of the U.N. According to the complaint, filed by an aid worker who was in Gaza in July, senior IDF officials directly offered WFP and OCHA security protection and logistical coordination to expedite aid distribution. Both agencies, the whistleblower alleges, refused to even discuss the proposal, which “prevented aid from getting to the people of Gaza.” The whistleblower charges that while the IDF has cleared thousands of tons of U.N. humanitarian goods into Gaza, those supplies remain piled up, undelivered, because the agencies refuse to coordinate with Israeli authorities. “The U.N. must be held accountable,” the complaint reads, urging a full independent investigation to determine whether the refusals originate with field staff in Gaza or are directives from senior U.N. officials in New York, “including the Secretary General himself.” The allegations come as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) — a U.S.- and Israeli-supported charity that says it has delivered 127 million meals since May — faces relentless attacks not only from Hamas but, according to the whistleblower, from the very international aid organizations charged with feeding Gazans. “There is a concerted effort to discredit GHF and any attempts to provide aid outside of the U.N.,” the whistleblower told Fox News Digital. A senior State Department official acknowledged GHF’s efforts to block Hamas looting and said the group’s model “is a threat to how Hamas functions and enriches itself.” The official cited “endless video evidence” of Hamas stealing aid and accused elements of the “aid-industrial complex” of covering up theft by calling it “self-distribution.” The complaint lands amid a broader reckoning over the U.N.’s role in Gaza. A State Department assessment to Congress, obtained by Fox News Digital, concludes the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is “irredeemably compromised” and should be dismantled. U.S. officials confirmed that ongoing USAID OIG investigations have linked UNRWA personnel to Hamas and uncovered “serious shortcomings” in vetting and oversight, as well as credible evidence of systematic Hamas interference in aid delivery. Israeli officials say they have repeatedly offered to arrange armed security for U.N. convoys — standard practice in volatile regions such as South Sudan or Congo — only to be categorically refused when it comes to Gaza. Congressional staffers told Fox News Digital that multiple offices are reviewing the whistleblower’s report. One senior Republican aide called it “one of the more compelling accounts yet” of collusion between Hamas and U.N. agencies to divert or disrupt aid. U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric denied the allegations, calling them “delusional” and insisting that U.N. teams in Gaza coordinate daily with the IDF. The WFP likewise rejected claims it has blocked or impeded aid delivery. But the whistleblower — backed by input from other aid workers on the ground — disputes U.N. portrayals of widespread famine, describing “pockets of severe hunger” but “no evidence of starvation” across […]