UN denies working with Hamas-loving Gaza ‘aid’ group funded by American Marxist

EXCLUSIVE — A U.N. agency accused a pro-war Gaza “aid” provider of falsely presenting itself as a U.N. partner in comments to the Washington Examiner.The Sameer Project, founded in 2024, has claimed on its website and X posts that it works with the U.S.-funded United Nations Children’s Fund to give humanitarian resources such as water and education. The group and its U.K.-based founder deleted four posts glorifying Hamas, an Iranian strike on Israel, and Islamic “armed resistance” after the Washington Examiner asked about them, archived web pages show.“UNICEF has never had any partnership agreement with the project nor paid for any of their work,” a UNICEF representative told the Washington Examiner. “We are reaching out to them to fix the mention on their website.” The Sameer Project ultimately did not respond to multiple requests for comment, while the founder, self-described Palestinian exile Hala Sabbah, deleted her X account. Though there is currently no evidence the Sameer Project receives U.S. government funds, its support does extend to American shores.Israeli watchdog group NGO Monitor raised awareness about the Sameer Project’s rhetoric in a July report, along with its funding from American donor James “Fergie” Chambers. The Marxist activist has a history of defending Hamas and bankrolling leftist causes, and a communist organization he founded announced $300,000 for the Sameer Project in February.Chambers is now in Spanish detention fighting a U.S. extradition request based on allegations of riot, conspiracy to riot, and money laundering, his attorney previously told the Washington Examiner. U.S. officials claim Chambers laundered money to fund Hamas with a money trail that included the Sameer Project, the Guardian reported Saturday. Chambers’s attorney did not respond to a subsequent request for comment.Sameer Project employees complained in summer 2025 that GoFundMe shut down their donations as the platform addressed security risks related to Gaza crowdfunding. The group also posted in February about being “rejected over and over for institutional funding due to our clear stance and aim in the liberation of Palestine.” It thanked Chambers directly for his support in a follow-up post.The Sameer Project’s “explicitly violent rhetoric and highly disturbing educational content mean it can have no place in Gaza’s future,” NGO Monitor told the Washington Examiner.“UNICEF, for its part, must take responsibility for the misuse of its name and reputation, and do more to prevent abuse of its aid structures in terrorist-controlled conflict zones like Gaza,” the watchdog said.‘This is the real Islam’ Peace agreements negotiated by President Donald Trump require Hamas to disarm and relinquish the control it has held over Gaza since 2006 in exchange for Israeli concessions. Suspicion is mounting that, despite threats from Trump, Hamas does not truly plan to stop fighting. The Sameer Project has repeatedly indicated it wants that outcome.Purported aid organization Sameer Project praises “the resistance” on X in response to a photo on April 2, 2026. (Image credit: X) “God bless the resistance,” the organization said in an April post reacting to an image of Iranian and Hamas symbols.“This is the real Islam, armed resistance and sacrifice for the ummah, for humanity!” the Sameer Project said in June 2025 in response to another account’s post about crossing Israeli blockades.The Sameer Project claimed to receive a tent, fuel for buses, and medical training from UNICEF in X posts in recent months. An Oct. 9 video it posted purportedly showed work with children under tents with UNICEF’s logo. “Long live a free, Arab Palestine!” a caption says.A May Sameer Project video also showed a tent with the logo of the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration, or IOM. That agency “has no partnership nor relationship with Sameer Project,” an IOM spokesperson told the Washington Examiner.Another Sameer Project post from September claimed it teaches more than 900 Gazan students.In June 2025, founder Hala Sabbah reacted gleefully to alleged footage of wreckage in Tel Aviv resulting from Iranian bombings. “Such beautiful news to wake up to! I needed this,” she wrote on X next to tearful emojis.Sabbah also declared that “armed resistance, boycotts and protests will liberate us” in May 2025. She encouraged followers a month earlier to join Palestine Action, a violent protest network later designated a terrorist group by U.K. and American officials.The scrutiny toward the Sameer Project reflects broader concerns as Secretary of State Marco Rubio promises greater accountability for global humanitarian work. In one of the biggest U.N.-related scandals, federal investigators concluded in June that the United Nations hired 101 Hamas-aligned terrorists and ideologues as schoolteachers and other professionals.“U.S. government-funded implementers and entities involved in the delivery of foreign assistance in Gaza are subject to counterterrorism vetting and oversight procedures to prevent the diversion of U.S. assistance to, and its misuse or destruction by, Hamas and other terrorist and extremist entities,” a State Department spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “Oversight continues to be a major priority for all Department funding for programs inside Gaza.”Deeper left-wing activism ties The Sameer Project names the left-leaning London group Social Change Nest as its “fiscal host,” a status that allows one entity to handle another’s finances. Social Change Nest’s profile on the financial platform Open Collective says the two have had the relationship since June 2025.The “irregularities” surrounding the Sameer Project’s claims of U.N. support “should have raised red flags” for its financial associates, NGO Monitor told the Washington Examiner.Social Change Nest did not respond to a request for comment.Sabbah also co-founded a “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultancy” called Siyaq Solutions to address “the unique DEI challenges faced by organisations in the [South West Asia and North Africa] region,” according to her and the company’s online profiles. Siyaq Solutions counts itself and the Sameer Project as “partners.”UN STRUGGLING TO PROTECT FOREIGN AID PROGRAMS FROM BAD ACTORS UNDER RUBIO AGREEMENTS, DOCUMENTS SHOWThe Sameer Project’s website describes another co-founder in Europe who is an anonymous translator, along with a third in California, Lena Dajani.“Lena is a disability activist and is passionate about autism advocacy, in particular the intersection between colonization and disability,” the website says.