The United Nations said this week that nine male members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) have been fired following an investigation over their alleged involvement in Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attacks.

Deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq told a U.N. briefing on Monday that “the evidence was sufficient to conclude that they may have been involved” in the unprecedented terrorist attack in which thousands of Palestinian terrorists stormed into Israel and murdered 1,200 people, wounded 5,000+, and took hundreds of people hostage.

The admission comes after UNRWA has denied the allegations for months and falsely labeled accusations as Israeli propaganda and “disinformation.”

The organization launched an investigation after Israeli authorities provided information linking numerous UNRWA workers to the Hamas terrorist organization and the October 7 attack.

“Any UNRWA employee who was involved in acts of terror will be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution,” claimed Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA’s commissioner-general.

The U.S. State Department announced in January that in light of the evidence produced by Israel, the U.S. would cut funding to the organization.

“The United States is extremely troubled by the allegations that twelve UNRWA employees may have been involved in the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel,” said department spokesperson Matthew Miller. “The Department of State has temporarily paused additional funding for UNRWA while we review these allegations and the steps the United Nations is taking to address them.”

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UNRWA facilitates the spreading of anti-Semitic propaganda via many avenues, the most troublesome of which is perhaps its production of educational materials for children inciting hatred of Jews. Other examples include Nazi-like cartoons shared on social media by its staff and promoting terrorist-supporting flotillas and violence against Israel. UNRWA has also allowed Hamas to use its facilities and has employed its members as staff.

Hillel Neuer, the Executive Director of UN Watch, told a congressional hearing back in November, “Teachers and schools at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which runs education and social services for Palestinians, regularly call to murder Jews, and create teaching materials that glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis and incite antisemitism.”

“In 2022 alone, UNRWA received $344 million in U.S. funding,” Neuer continued. “Yet a March 2023 report by UN Watch and Impact-SE identified 133 UNRWA educators and staff who were found to promote hate and violence on social media, and an additional 82 teachers and other staff affiliated with 30 UNRWA schools who were involved in drafting and distributing hateful content to students.”

Jonathan Schanzer, the Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said during the same hearing in November: “No organization exemplifies the UN’s nurturing of Palestinian grievances at the expense of Palestinians better than UNRWA.”

“The agency has over 30,000 employees,” he added. “UNRWA doesn’t screen them for ties to terrorist groups, meaning that many employees are members of or affiliated with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or other violent groups.”

Hayden Daniel contributed to this report.

For the first time ever, an active duty U.S. female Army officer was crowned Miss USA on Sunday — the same year that a trans-identifying male won the Miss Maryland beauty pageant.

On Sunday, at the Miss USA Pageant in Los Angeles, Miss Michigan, Alma Cooper, smiled as she walked the catwalk, waving to the crowd while wearing the tiara and a sash that read Miss USA, CNN reported.

Cooper — who is a second lieutenant who serves as a military intelligence officer — told judges during the Q&A portion of the pageant that “as the daughter of a migrant worker, a proud Afro Latina woman and an officer of the United States Army, I am living the American dream.”

“If there’s anything that my life and my mother have taught me, it’s that your circumstances never define your destiny: You can make success accessible through demanding excellence,” she added.

Alma Cooper, the winner of Miss USA 2024, has explained that her family values became the driving force for her success, and she is nothing but grateful to her parents. She is of Afro-Latina ethnicity, the daughter of a black father, Stacey Cooper, and a Latina mother, Oralia… pic.twitter.com/MrGzbzh2Ix

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Speaking in a recent article, Cooper said, “Other contestants may be drawn to pageants for their glitz and glamor, but I see the stage as an opportunity to represent the many girls of color who often go unseen and unheard, and to inspire others to free themselves from circumstances and perceptions about who they are.”

Miss Maryland, Bailey Anne Kennedy, who identifies as transgender, was on hand at the event to compete against the 49 female pageant winners on Sunday in the Miss USA competition, as previously reported. Out of the 50 contestants, the top 20 women were chosen, and Kennedy was not one, the Baltimore Sun noted.

Kennedy won the state competition in June, calling the victory a “whirlwind because I knew it was bigger than me. I knew that it was going to mean a lot for all the LGBTQ kids out there who might feel like they don’t belong in a box — like me growing up.”

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Last year, Rikkie Kolle, a 22-year-old trans-identifying man, was crowned “Miss Netherlands” and went on to compete in the 2023 Miss Universe pageant, as previously reported.

The same year, a trans-identifying male was crowned “Miss San Francisco” and went on to compete in the Miss California pageant for the crown. Monroe Lace, a man who identifies as a woman, won the pageant in March, qualifying to compete for the 2023 Miss California title.

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