Gaza, ALRAY - Ministry of Social Affairs warned on Monday Gazan  families benefiting from its programs and have files with in its departments not to answer calls from anonymous numbers and not to cooperate with anybody claiming to be a social worker from the ministry as long as he or she doesn't identify themselves clearly.

The warning came after citizens informed the Interior Ministry that they received calls from unknown numbers  who  claimed  that they were researchers from the Social Affairs Ministry.

The Interior Ministry in Gaza made clear that the Israeli intelligence service  contacted them and exploited  the  social worker job as a new way to collect information about citizens.