Mahmoud Khalil, UNRWA Syria Teacher, Praises Hamas

Mahmoud Khalil lists himself as a teacher and translator at UNRWA. He also follows UNRWA Facebook pages, including the official UNRWA and UNRWA Staff in Syria pages, further confirming his UNRWA employment status. In addition, Khalil’s profile contains a photo of himself delivering a speech at an UNRWA event in 2012.

n May 15, 2021, Mahmoud Khalil shared a Tweet praising Hamas rocket attacks against Israeli civilians, which according to the tweet had “ended the Zionist enterprise,” referring to the State of Israel. It also referred to Hamas’ “victory” in May 2021 as the “starting point for the liberation of Palestine…” The tweet included a Hamas propaganda video, featuring Hamas rockets fired at Israeli civilians—a war crime under international law.

Post translation:

#Israel raises the banner of surrender and defeat by seeking assistance from its American ally to mediate with Hamas until the missile attack ceases, this war has changed all of the equations, it has ended the Zionist enterprise, destroyed its allies, and the terms of the cease fire that Hamas is preparing will be great and severe, and will reflect the starting point for the liberation of #Palestine #Gaze_the_Mighty

On October 21, 2022, Mahmoud Khalil shared a poem venerating terrorist “martyr” Udai Tamimi, perpetrator of the Shuafat Checkpoint attack that killed 18-year-old IDF soldier Noa Lazar while she was changing shifts. Civilian guard David Morel, 30, was seriously wounded in the attack. Mahmoud Khalil captioned his post “For the honorable one is free and ageless.”