There is a verse in Isaiah that should be tattooed on the conscience of every international organization operating in Gaza right now:
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20)
That “woe” is not a suggestion. It is a covenant curse. And it applies with surgical precision to what has been uncovered in the last two months about Doctors Without Borders, UNRWA, and the humanitarian infrastructure that has been co-opted — knowingly or not — by Hamas.
The white coat has become a disguise. The aid truck has become a supply line. And the hospital has become a fortress. This is not conspiracy theory. The organizations themselves are confirming it.
The Names
On January 2, 2026, Israel’s Foreign Ministry presented evidence identifying specific Doctors Without Borders (MSF) employees as active members of terrorist organizations.
Fadi al-Wadiya worked for MSF in Gaza. He was also a senior operative of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, responsible for developing the terror group’s rocket systems. He was killed in an Israeli drone strike in June 2024. After his death, the IDF identified him as an Islamic Jihad missile specialist. MSF had mourned him as a fallen humanitarian worker.
Nasser Hamdi Abdelatif al-Shalfouh also worked for MSF. He was simultaneously serving as a Hamas sniper engaged in what the Foreign Ministry described as “combat and operational activity.” Israel released video footage of al-Shalfouh, which it says confirms his role as a Hamas operative.
A third staff member, Mahmoud Abunejeila, publicly expressed support for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization.
These are not anonymous allegations. These are names. These are people who wore the MSF badge during the day and served terrorist organizations at the same time.
And MSF’s response? Not a full investigation. Not a transparent accounting of its vetting procedures. Instead, the organization refused to hand over its staff list to Israeli authorities for security screening. On January 30, 2026, MSF formally announced it would not comply with the registration requirements, citing “staff safety concerns.”
Think about that for a moment. An organization that employed a rocket engineer and a sniper cited staff safety as its reason for refusing transparency.
The Hospital
On January 20, 2026, MSF itself suspended non-critical operations at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis — Gaza’s largest functioning medical facility. The reason? Armed men were roaming the hospital. Weapons were being moved through the compound. Patients were being intimidated and arbitrarily arrested.
MSF’s own statement described “a pattern of unacceptable acts, including the presence of armed men, intimidation, arbitrary arrests of patients, and suspicion of movement of weapons.”
This is MSF admitting — in its own words — that the hospital it operated in was being used as a military facility. Armed, masked men walking the halls. Weapons transfers under the same roof where newborns were in incubators.
Nasser Hospital’s administration fired back, calling the allegations “false, unsubstantiated, and misleading.” But MSF didn’t budge. They shut down pediatrics, maternity, the neonatal ICU, and outpatient services. They kept only trauma surgery running.
When a humanitarian organization pulls out of a hospital because armed terrorists have taken over the building, and the hospital’s own administration denies it, you are watching the machinery of institutional complicity in real time.
Israel subsequently announced that MSF would be banned from Gaza within a month for failing to provide its employee list.
The Pattern: UNRWA
MSF is not the first humanitarian organization caught harboring terrorists. It isn’t even the worst case.
UNRWA — the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees — has been at the center of this rot for years. After October 7, 2023, Israeli intelligence identified at least 12 UNRWA employees who directly participated in the Hamas massacre. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant publicly revealed their identities. Seven of them were primary or secondary school teachers.
One UNRWA teacher was recorded bragging: “We have female hostages. I captured one!”
That’s a United Nations employee. A schoolteacher. Boasting about kidnapping civilians.
According to Israeli claims, 1,468 UNRWA workers are “known to be active in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” including 185 in Hamas’s military wing. The UN’s own internal investigation found sufficient evidence to fire nine employees over potential involvement in October 7. Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the evidence “highly, highly credible.”
And then there is Emily Damari.
The Hostage in the UN Building
Emily Damari is a British-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped from her home on October 7, 2023. She was held hostage by Hamas for 15 months. During her captivity, she was shot in the hand and leg. She lost two fingers.
When she was finally released in January 2025, she told British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that she had been held in UNRWA facilities. Inside United Nations buildings. While the UN continued to operate in Gaza, continued to receive international funding, and continued to issue statements about humanitarian principles.
She was given an expired bottle of iodine to treat her gunshot wounds. That was her medical care inside a UN facility.
Israel filed Damari’s testimony with the International Court of Justice as evidence of UNRWA’s complicity with Hamas. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini called the allegations “deeply disturbing and shocking” but claimed the agency had been “forced to vacate” its installations and had no control over them.
No control over their own buildings. No knowledge of who was using them. No responsibility for the hostage chained inside.
That is the defense.
What the Hostages Endured
The hostage testimony that has emerged paints a picture of systematic, deliberate cruelty — not the fog of war, but intentional degradation of human beings.
Released hostages reported being kept chained in airless tunnels for over 15 months, unable to stand or walk. They were fed a quarter of a pita per day. They were allowed to relieve themselves twice daily at fixed times. Their captors used bicycle chains as whips and wore rings to leave deeper welts when they struck.
Two Israeli teenagers were forced to perform sexual acts on one another by their captors. The details were compiled in a Health Ministry report presented to the United Nations.
Released hostages lost an average of 17 to 33 pounds. Multiple hostages suffered malnutrition and heart disorders. Intelligence reports indicated that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar personally instructed the starvation of all male hostages.
And some of them were held in facilities built and funded by the international community, staffed by employees of humanitarian organizations, under the banner of the United Nations.
The Broader Rot
In late December 2025, Israel announced it would suspend operations for 37 humanitarian organizations in Gaza and the West Bank, effective January 1, 2026. The suspended groups include MSF, World Vision, multiple Oxfam affiliates, and Mercy Corps. The stated reason: failure to comply with transparency requirements designed to screen staff for terrorist affiliations.
The case of Mohammed El-Halabi, former head of World Vision’s Gaza office, is instructive. He was convicted in June 2022 on 13 counts of terrorism-related charges, including membership in a terrorist organization and financing terrorism. He is alleged to have diverted approximately $50 million in humanitarian aid to Hamas over several years. Fifty million dollars. Through a Christian charity.
This is not an isolated incident. This is a pattern. And the pattern reveals something the Western humanitarian establishment does not want to confront: in Gaza, the humanitarian infrastructure and the terrorist infrastructure are not two separate things. They are the same thing, wearing different uniforms on different days.
The Theological Reality
Scripture has a category for this. It is called abomination.
“A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.” (Proverbs 11:1)
A false balance. A rigged scale. Something that presents itself as one thing while being another. The humanitarian badge that conceals the sniper. The hospital that houses the weapons cache. The UN school where the teacher brags about kidnapping women.
God hates a false balance. Not dislikes. Not finds regrettable. Hates. The Hebrew word is toevah — abomination. The same word used for the most grievous offenses against God’s moral order.
Why? Because a false balance corrupts the very concept of justice. It makes trust impossible. It weaponizes mercy. When the aid worker is a sniper, no one can trust the aid worker. When the hospital is a fortress, no one can trust the hospital. When the UN building is a prison for hostages, the entire system of international humanitarian law — built over decades, paid for with billions — becomes a lie.
And that is exactly what Hamas intended.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9)
This is total depravity made institutional. It is not enough for Hamas to commit atrocities. They must also corrupt the institutions designed to prevent atrocities. They must turn the Red Cross into a shield, the hospital into a barracks, the school into a recruitment center, and the humanitarian worker into a combatant. The depravity is not just in the violence — it is in the systematic inversion of every category of goodness.
Isaiah saw it clearly: calling evil good and good evil. Putting darkness for light. The woe he pronounced is not expired. It is active. It applies.
What Christians Should Do
Name It
Do not call this a “complex situation.” Do not retreat into diplomatic language. When a humanitarian organization employs terrorists, that is complicity. When a hospital is used to store weapons, that is a war crime. When hostages are chained in UN buildings, that is an indictment of the entire international system.
The prophets did not speak in euphemisms. Amos called the women of Samaria “cows of Bashan” for their complicity in oppression (Amos 4:1). Ezekiel called Jerusalem a prostitute for her spiritual treachery (Ezekiel 16). Jesus called the Pharisees whitewashed tombs — beautiful on the outside, full of dead men’s bones within (Matthew 23:27).
An organization that presents a humanitarian exterior while sheltering terrorists is a whitewashed tomb. Call it what it is.
Demand Transparency
If you donate to international humanitarian organizations, ask questions. Demand to know their vetting procedures for staff in conflict zones. Ask whether they comply with security screening requirements. Ask what they do when staff are identified as members of terrorist organizations.
Stewardship of your giving is not optional. It is biblical. “Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful” (1 Corinthians 4:2). If your donations fund an organization that employs terrorists, you have a responsibility to know.
Pray for the Hostages
As of this writing, hostages remain in Gaza. They are not statistics. They are human beings made in the image of God, held in darkness by men who have rejected every principle of human decency.
Pray for their survival. Pray for their rescue. Pray for the families who wait in agony. Pray for the released hostages — Emily Damari and others — who carry the physical and psychological scars of what was done to them in buildings that bore the insignia of international aid.
Pray for Justice
Pray that the organizations complicit in this — whether through negligence or intention — are held to account. Pray that the donors, the boards, the directors, and the governments that funded them are confronted with what their money enabled. Pray that the false balance is broken and a just weight restored.
Pray that the individuals who tortured hostages, who fired rockets, who bragged about kidnapping women — while drawing paychecks from humanitarian organizations — face justice in this life. And remind yourself that they will certainly face it in the next.
The God of Justice
The humanitarian system failed. That is not a surprise to anyone who reads Scripture. Human institutions always fail. They are built by fallen people, staffed by fallen people, and inevitably corrupted by fallen people. Total depravity does not stop at the door of the NGO.
But God’s justice does not fail. It does not depend on UN votes. It does not require staff lists. It is not fooled by white coats or humanitarian badges or diplomatic immunity.
“The LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.” (Isaiah 30:18)
He sees the hostage in the tunnel. He sees the sniper in the MSF vest. He sees the teacher who captured a woman and boasted about it. He sees the rocket engineer who built weapons of murder while wearing the badge of mercy.
And He is not mocked.
The false balance will be broken. The whitewashed tomb will be opened. Every hidden thing will be dragged into the light. That is not a hope. It is a promise, grounded in the character of a God who cannot lie and will not be deceived.
You’re in my prayers.
Sources
MSF / Doctors Without Borders:
- JNS: Two Doctors Without Borders staffers identified as terrorists
- Jerusalem Post: MSF advanced anti-Israel narrative, maintained terror ties (exclusive)
- JNS: Doctors Without Borders drops Gaza hospital over terrorists’ presence
- Al Jazeera: MSF says it will not hand over staff details to Israeli authorities
- NBC News: Doctors Without Borders suspends some work at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
- The Hill: MSF suspends some work at Nasser Hospital due to presence of armed men
- Times of Israel: Doctors Without Borders will be banned from Gaza within month
- MSF Statement on staff registration
UNRWA:
- Times of Israel: Israel reveals 12 UNRWA staffers it says took part in Oct. 7
- NBC News: U.N. workers played a direct role in Oct. 7 Hamas attack
- NPR: U.N. fires 9 more staffers over potential involvement in Oct. 7 attack
- UN Watch: Evidence of UNRWA aid to Hamas on and after October 7th
- Times of Israel: IDF recordings show UNRWA staffers bragging of Oct. 7 crimes
Hostages:
- Times of Israel: Emily Damari’s mom says daughter was held in UNRWA facilities
- Haaretz: Freed hostage Emily Damari was held in UNRWA facilities
- Times of Israel: Freed hostages were abused, suffer malnutrition, heart disorders
- Times of Israel: Report to UN details Hamas torture of teen hostages
- Times of Israel: Israel files testimony to World Court regarding hostage held in UNRWA facility
NGO Bans and World Vision:
- Al Jazeera: Which aid groups is Israel banning from Gaza now
- Times of Israel: Israel vows to enforce ban on 37 aid groups in Gaza
- Jewish Online: Examining the organizations Israel banned from Gaza over terror infiltration
Scripture References:
- Isaiah 5:20, Proverbs 11:1, Jeremiah 17:9, Isaiah 30:18, Amos 4:1, Ezekiel 16, Matthew 23:27, 1 Corinthians 4:2
