A United Nations watchdog group says the notorious UN reduction company that gives $1.5 billion a yr to Palestinians needs to be disbanded for colluding with terrorists and “enabling crimes against humanity.”
“The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is neither independent nor neutral,” says a scathing new report by the Swiss-based group UN WATCH.
“UNRWA’s senior administration not solely employs people tied to Hamas terrorism but in addition permits terrorist teams like Hamas to affect and hinder crucial company selections and insurance policies.
“UNRWA’s failure to maintain neutrality, combined with its susceptibility to influence from terrorist groups, undermines its credibility as a humanitarian agency and perpetuates conflict in the region,” the group stated. “It is time for donors to reconsider their support, dismantle the Agency, and seek alternative frameworks to provide effective aid to Palestinians in need.”
Greater than 10% of important and senior schooling workers employed by UNRWA within the Gaza Strip are members of Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, based on one other scathing report revealed final yr.
The UN Watch report included these stunning alleged examples of the reduction company’s ties to terrorists:
- UNRWA Chief Philippe Lazzarini “capitulated” and met with terrorist teams in Could 2024 after the suspension of Fathi Al-Sharif, a academics’ union chief and Hamas chief. The ouster of the Hamas chief led to large rallies and shut down UNRWA’s Beirut headquarters.
- UNRWA Lebanon Director Schmale thanked terrorist teams at a Hamas rally in August 2018, alongside senior Hamas militant Ali Baraka, who informed the group that donors should assist UNRWA “until we return to Palestine.”
- UNRWA participates in an annual Hamas convention which discusses inner UNRWA affairs akin to worker vacancies and academics union elections. On the 2021 convention, Hamas rep Ahmad Abd Al-Hadi introduced the launching of a joint committee to “supervise the relationship with UNRWA and ensure it implements its obligations.”
- UNRWA Lebanon Director Hakam Shahwan informed terrorist leaders in February 2017 that UNRWA is “fully prepared” to have “a strong partnership mechanism” with them — so long as it doesn’t seem that they’re “partners in decision-making.”
- In 2022, UNRWA’s Lazzarini pressured the significance of a “partnership” with Gaza terrorist teams and often met with them below the umbrella of the “Joint Refugee Committee.”
“UNRWA is no longer a humanitarian agency — it has become a full-fledged partner to terrorist organizations like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” stated Hillel Neuer, government director of UN Watch, to The Submit.
“Western taxpayers are funding a $1.5 billion organization that actively collaborates with those who glorify violence and seek the destruction of Israel. This is an outrage,” he stated.
Neuer significantly cited UNRWA permitting Hamas chief Fathi Al-Sharif to run one if its faculties, which he stated quantities to complicity with terrorism.
It’s long gone time to dismantle the UNRWA — created in 1949 — and exchange it with a reputable, terror-free various, he stated.
“The US and Western nations funding UNRWA need to wake up. Your money is being used to employ terrorists, indoctrinate children and build the infrastructure of hatred and violence. This is a betrayal of your taxpayers and your values,” Neuer stated.
The US gave greater than $1 billion to UNRWA lately — however suspended funding to the reduction company final yr after studies of its ties to terror teams.
“We are calling on the new Trump administration to announce not only that the freeze is permanent but that the US will impose crippling sanctions on the terrorist-infested UNRWA and its leaders and will pursue legal action to hold them accountable in a court of law for enabling crimes against humanity,” Neuer stated.
The UNRWA had no rapid remark.
