Hamas slams UN over ‘Holocaust classes’ in Gaza

Hamas condemned the United Nations on Sunday over the international body’s apparent plan to teach Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip about the Holocaust.

A spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which educates some 200,000 refugee children in Gaza, said the Holocaust was not on its current curriculum. He would not comment on Hamas’ statement that it was about to change.

Branding the Nazi genocide of the Jews “a lie invented by the Zionists,” the Islamist movement that runs the Gaza Strip wrote in an open letter to a senior UN official that he should withdraw plans for a new history book in UN schools.

In an open letter to local UNRWA chief John Ging, the movement’s Popular Committees for Refugees said: “We refuse to let our children study a lie invented by the Zionists.”

UNRWA spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna said: “There is no mention of the Holocaust in the current syllabus.” Asked if UNRWA planned to change that, he declined to comment (IsraelNN.com).

What is ironic in this is that the leader of the Palestinians at the time Grand Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini was a follower of Hitler and engaged in the Holocaust, and yet Hamas denies the Holocaust .

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