The United States is investigating the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for alleged ties to terrorism. The agency, which provides aid to Palestinian refugees, has over 1,500 employees being probed for links to terrorism.

Investigation Details

US officials have increasingly called on UN member states to defund UNRWA after decades of concerns about its school materials promoting terror, the presence of Hamas tunnels beneath UNRWA schools, and charges that staff members participated in the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7 against Israel.

The USAID Office of the Inspector General, a law enforcement agency separate from USAID, has referred a total of 108 current or former UNRWA staff to the State Department for suspension or exclusion from working with organizations that receive US funds. These individuals were found to be involved in the Hamas invasion of southern Israel or were members of terrorist groups.

Response from US Officials

A senior US official stated that the USAID OIG investigation is critical, as US taxpayers should never fund the salaries of aid workers who are members of a foreign terrorist organization. The official also mentioned that the USAID OIG investigation is helping prevent terrorists from working in aid organizations that receive US funding.

The US Representative for United Nations Management and Reform, Ambassador Jeff Bartos, said that it is time to stop underwriting an organization that has become a subsidiary of Hamas, whose employees took part in one of the most barbaric terrorist attacks in human history on October 7, 2023.

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