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Israel Warns UN Being 'Exploited' by Hamas Following Arrest of Employee in Gaza

© REUTERS / Ibraheem Abu MustafaA signboard for a Japan-funded housing project executed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seen, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip August 9, 2016.
A signboard for a Japan-funded housing project executed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seen, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip August 9, 2016. - Sputnik International
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Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon addressed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warning him that Hamas is "exploiting" the organization, following an arrest of an UN employee in Gaza on terrorism related charges, local media reported Tuesday.

Christian charity World Vision organization is seen at a building housing the organisation's office in Gaza City August 4, 2016 - Sputnik International
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TEL AVIV (Sputnik) — According to Israel's internal security service, Shin Bet, Wahid Abd Allah Borsh, 38, an engineer in the UN Development Program (UNDP) was arrested July 16 on charges of assisting the terrorist organization. During the interrogations, he told that in 2014, he was approached by Hamas requesting him to organize his work in UNDP in the way to benefit Hamas the most.

"This is not an isolated incident, but a worrying trend of systematic exploitation of UN bodies by Hamas terrorists," Danon said, as quoted by the Jerusalem Post newspaper.

Earlier in the day, Borsh was formally charged with assisting Hamas.

On August 4, Shin Bet said that Hamas infiltrated in the Christian relief organization World Vision providing aid to the strip and has funneled some 60 percent of aid group's budget to Hamas's military wing. While on August 1, Save the Children organization said that it would begin investigation following similar accusations made by Israel.

The UNDP has operated in the Gaza Strip since the late 1970s focusing on rebuilding homes destroyed by the conflict.

Hamas, an Islamist political and militant group, seeks the creation of an independent state of Palestine and wants Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territories it occupied after the 1967 war.

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