Israel arrests UN employee ‘for aiding Hamas’
Israel said on Tuesday it had arrested and charged a United Nations employee for allegedly aiding Islamist movement Hamas, in the second such case involving a humanitarian worker in a week.
Engineer Waheed Borsh, who has worked for the UN Development Programme (UNDP) since 2003, was arrested on July 16 and indicted in a civilian court in Israel on Tuesday, a government statement said. Hamas, which has run the Gaza Strip since 2007, denied the allegations.
The statement said 38-year-old Borsh, from Jabaliya in northern Gaza, had been recruited by “a senior member of the Hamas terrorist organisation to redirect his work for UNDP to serve Hamas’ military interests”.
It said he had confessed to a number of charges, including helping to build a jetty in the northern Gaza Strip with UNDP funding, which was later used by Hamas’ naval forces.
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