The Hamas Movement has disapproved of statements made by UNRWA Director in the West Bank Adam Bouloukos on the killing of an elderly Palestinian man by the Israeli occupation army in the West Bank city of Nablus two days ago.
In a press statement on Friday the head of the Hamas Movement’s Department of Politics and Foreign Relations Basem Naim condemned Bouloukos’s remarks labeling them as a “grave breach of the role assigned to UNRWA by a United Nations General Assembly mandate and an offense against the martyr’s family and our Palestinian people.”
Naim called for holding the UNRWA director accountable for his comments demanding an apology from the UN body.
He also urged UNRWA to reconsider its current policies and its purported neutrality towards the Palestinian cause.
For their part Palestinian officials have called for dismissing UNRWA Director Bouloukos as his statements reflect his support of the Israeli narrative stressing that the Palestinian people have the right to defend themselves which is a legitimate right guaranteed under international laws and conventions.
Bouloukos had tweeted that Abdel Aziz al-Ashqar a 64-year-old retired UNRWA employee who was shot dead by the Israeli occupation army during an Israeli violent raid into Nablus was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
