Hmada Ahmed lists himself on Facebook as working for UNRWA. Ahmed’s Facebook profile contains several photos of him in UNRWA schools, including at the Al Qarara Preparatory Boys School, funded by the US, and photos of him in meetings with the principal and other school staff. He endorses Hamas’ kidnapping of more than 220 Israelis as hostages and celebrates the massacre.
On October 14, Ahmed posted that foreigners should be forced to stay in Gaza,along with the Israelis, until Israel lifts its blockade of Gaza and ends the “injustices.” This post not only endorses the hostage-taking, which itself is a war crime, but also supports keeping the hostages as bargaining chips to extortconcessions from Israel. Hmada Ahmed also liked a comment on his post that insisted on using the term prisoners instead of hostages, as this sounds more legitimate.
Translation:
Foreign nationals should remain among the Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip until the siege and the injustices [imposed on] the Gaza Strip are lifted.
Translation of comment:
The resistance should write “prisoners” (not hostages – [using] this terminology makes it seem as though the resistance is an armed gang, which is untrue), and causes them to demand that their governments pressure Israel to stop the bombing, and that their policy, which supports the [Zionist] entity, puts them in danger (which is demonstrated). No prisoner should be released, after every- thing that has happened, until after a ceasefire [is reached] and the siege is lifted… and then, negotiations over a prisoner exchange.
This October 14 post effectively calls to ethnically cleanse the area of Jews. It states that the land, meaning the State of Israel plus the West Bank and Gaza, “cannot accommodate two identities.” There is room only for “us or us,” meaning only Palestinians, no Jews. Ahmed’s post concludes that “they [the Jews] are the ones passing by,” suggesting that they will not permanently remain.
Translation:
This land cannot accommodate two identities. [It’s] either us or us. We are the ones who will remain, and they are the ones passing by.
On October 7, the day Hamas invaded Israel, brutally massacred over 1,400, mostly Israeli civilians, wounded thousands, and kidnapped over 220 Israelis into Gaza as hostages, Ahmed gleefully celebrated, posting “[We] welcome the great October.”