The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has disapproved of statements made by UNRWA Director in the West Bank, Adam Bouloukos, on the killing of an elderly Palestinian man by the Israeli occupation army in the occupied West Bank of Nablus two days ago. 

In a tweet, Bouloukos said that Abdel Aziz al-Ashqar, a 64-year-old retired UNRWA employee who was shot dead by the Israeli occupation army during its violent incursion into Nablus, was "in the wrong place at the wrong time." 

Basem Naim, member of the Hamas politburo in Gaza, condemned such remarks as a "grave breach of the role assigned to UNRWA by a United Nations General Assembly mandate and an offence against the martyr's family and our Palestinian people." 

In a press statement Friday, Naim called for holding the UNRWA director accountable for his comments, demanding an apology from the UN body. 

The Hamas official also urged UNRWA to reconsider its current policies and its purported neutrality towards the Palestinian cause.