UN Leaders Lit an Eternal Flame for a Hamas Commander
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The UN memorial also honored a Hamas fighter as a fallen UN employee – and Baerbock also lit a "eternal flame" for him.
Annalena Baerbock, together with Secretary General António Guterres, set fire to a "eternal flame" of UN personnel who died for 136 in the previous year. Among the honored were Imad El Samhouri, long-time teacher and head of the Palestinian Relief Agency UNRWA – and, according to a "martyrer" video of the Kassam Brigades, also a field commander of Hamas. Just three weeks later, the former German Foreign Minister stood before the United Nations a…
UN Leaders Lit an Eternal Flame for a Hamas Commander
UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer is calling on UN Secretary-General António Guterres and UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock to retract their tribute to Imad El Samhouri, a longtime UNRWA teacher and school principal recently exposed as a Hamas field commander. At a UN memorial ceremony on June 8, 2026, both officials helped light an eternal flame honoring fallen UN personnel, with El Samhouri’s name read aloud before them. A…
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