Hamas condemned the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Sunday, saying UNRWA planned to teach 13-year-old Gaza children about the Nazi genocide of the Jews during World War II and the years leading up to it, according to Reuters. Hamas said it believed UNRWA was about to start using a text that included a chapter on the Holocaust.
Referring the Holocaust as "a lie invented by the Zionists," the Islamist movement wrote in an open letter to local UNRWA chief John Ging that he should withdraw plans for a new history book in UN schools. An UNRWA spokesman said the Holocaust was not currently on its curriculum. He would not comment on Hamas's statement that it was about to change.