"The head of the U.N. agency tasked with providing support to Palestinians acknowledged on Thursday that learning materials widely distributed in Gaza and West Bank schools contained "inappropriate" content glorifying Palestinian militants and encouraging violence.
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) printed and distributed its own materials to complement the Palestinian Authority's curriculum. The materials, which repeatedly refer to Israel as 'the enemy,' also include instructions in a math workbook for students to select the correct number of 'martyrs' from the first intifada.
A grammar booklet published by UNRWA includes the sentences, 'Jihad is one of the doors to Paradise,' and 'The Palestinians have become an example of sacrifice.'
In a series of tweets, UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini indicated that the material in question was distributed in error, and that the agency had replaced the offending pages with 'content that adheres to U.N. values.'
Lazzarini did not respond to a question from Jewish Insider about how the problematic materials were replaced and with what..." Lazzarini's tweets came in the wake of a report by IMPACT-se, a watchdog organization that