New slump for UN cultural agency: Ready to fund hands-on prisoners with blood on their hands in Jaffa prison • IPS: "Organization's representatives do not work in prisons"

• Prison Prison // Photo: Dudu Greenshpan

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is sponsoring a special academic program in collaboration with Al-Najah University in Nablus, under which convicted terrorists receive prison sentences in Israeli prisons in the Human Rights course.

In August 2018, Al-Najah University posted on its official website that a ceremony was held for 61 "star" inmates in the Nafha prison, who had completed a course on international law and human rights. The ceremony was organized by the UNESCO's Chamber of Democracy and Human Rights at the University. Al-Najah, in collaboration with Fatah and the Minister of Inmates and Liberated Prisoners. However, these courses probably do not exist - but either way, the UN agency is ready to take part.

One of these "stellar" prisoners, whose diploma was issued by the university, is he and Al Hajazi Abu Shehmed, who, according to the certificate, participated in the "15-hour training course at Nafah Prison". And why is he sitting in jail? Well, Abu Shahmad is one of the initiators of a suicide attack in 2002 in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, where six people were murdered, and he serves no less than six life sentences for his actions. Indeed, excels in human rights.

Certificate of Excellence for Terrorists

Another graduate of the course is another member of Abu Shahmad's squad called Moetaz Al-Haimuni of Hebron, who was convicted of his involvement in preparing the same attack in the market. In addition to training in human rights, during his imprisonment, Al-Himmuni succeeded in obtaining a high school diploma, completed a course in Arabic calligraphy, a painting course, and authored three literary works, according to an article on Radio Al Bald.

But that doesn't end: the course's facilitators, as stated in the diploma, are six terrorist prisoners, including Yasser Abu Bakr, responsible for the 2002 attack in Netanya, in which a 9-month-old citizen and a baby were murdered (sentenced to 115 years in prison in 2004 ).

The ceremony to conclude the course was held with the release of Khalid Al-Qarm, and it featured senior figures in the Palestinian Authority. The UNESCO program was launched in 1992 and includes more than 700 institutions in 116 countries. According to Elhanan Gruner of the Jewish Voice website, who revealed the terrorist's diploma, "Israeli authorities and most media outlets are ignoring the situation, and instead of using a hard hand against terrorists and providing Responding to the international scene, we see how terrorists who murdered Jews celebrate in prisons. "

Ann Herzberg, NGO Monitor's legal adviser and UN representative, says: "There is nothing more ridiculous than terrorists who murdered Israeli civilians and expressed no remorse, receiving a human rights certificate with a UN official stamp."

IPS reports: "UNESCO representatives do not enter the prisons, and IPS does not allow security prisoners to study. Attempts to produce 'Pike News' by the security prisoners and by foreign parties with a vested interest in harming public resilience in Israel are not interrupted for a moment. "

The UNESCO response was not received at the time of the issue closing.