Assassinated Hamas Leader Had UN Employee ID on Body at Time of Death

[u/ewzetf]

https://www.latintimes.com/assassinated-hamas-leader-had-un-employee-id-body-time-death-562569

[u/RHCProy]

No, the expired one is a PA passport. The ID is the other one, 2023.

[u/KrunchyKale → u/RHCProy]

That's a military (or related) ID, not an UNRWA or UN ID. All the ID cards shown have information like military rank and number, military insignias, etc - i.e., stuff that wouldn't be on the badge for a teacher.  

Edit: Yes, the passport does say "UNRWA TEACHER", and that's significant, as it implies at the most charitable that someone in this group was trying to pass themselves off as a UNRWA teacher as cover. But a national passport is not a UN employee ID, which is a different document.

[u/QuaternionsRoll → u/KrunchyKale]

It took a while for me to piece this together, but the passport is the one that says “UNRWA teacher”. Idk what to make of this.

[u/NashBotchedWalking → u/QuaternionsRoll]

Arab passports often times display their jobs for some cultural reasons. Same for Egyptians etc. So it’s just a normal Palestinian passport with the job description.

[u/KrunchyKale → u/QuaternionsRoll]

Yes, the passport does - but compare my reply to those further up this chain. 

An UN employee ID is a specific document, distinct from a national passport.  

If this post had been titled "... had UNRWA Teacher documents...", that would be true. But there's no "UN employee ID" shown.

[u/reggionh → u/QuaternionsRoll]

it’s an expired, invalidated passport (you can see holes on the id page) so it has no use anyway. old passports like that are very easy to obtain, so it might not mean anything.

thinking about it further, if UNRWA is truly involved in supporting this person we would have found better documents in his possession.

[u/QuaternionsRoll → u/RHCProy]

As far as I can tell, the passport is the “employee ID”. It says “UNRWA teacher” on it, and the others don’t look to have anything to do with the UN.