Once again it is time to outline the obvious.
It's time to completely defund UNRWA. A huge portion of the staff in Gaza is directly linked to being part of Hamas. Nearly half are relatives of terrorists.
About 1,200 UNRWA staffers — or 10% — have links to Hamas with thousands more closely related to terrorists: Israeli dossier
https://nypost.com/2024/01/29/news/...losely-related-to-terrorists-israeli-dossier/
"Among all of the agency’s workers, nearly half — or around 6,000 — have close kin in the militant organizations, which have ruled Gaza since 2007, according to the intelligence, which was given to the US."
thank you, now we can disregard.
Israel is hoping to push the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, out of the Gaza Strip post-war, Channel 12 reported, citing a high-level, classified Foreign Ministry report.
According to the report, the document recommends three stages to the move. The first involves a comprehensive report on alleged UNRWA cooperation with Hamas, which rules Gaza, and the entanglement of the UN body that provides welfare and humanitarian services for Palestinian refugees from the 1948 and 1967 wars and their descendants, with the terror group.
The next stage would see reduced UNRWA operations in the Palestinian enclave, amid a search for a different organization to provide education and welfare services. In the third stage, according to the report, all of UNRWA’s duties would be transferred to the body governing Gaza following the war.
For the time being, UNRWA has the infrastructure in place to provide the necessary and crucial aid to Gaza during the ongoing fighting and Israel has no interest in changing this currently, according to the report. It added that the US views UNRWA “as a positive player in the humanitarian efforts in the Strip” and said Israel must navigate the issue carefully and gradually while planning for the day after the war.
Israel has
long accused UNRWA of perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by extending refugee status to millions of descendants of Palestinians who fled or were forced out of homes in today’s Israel at the time of the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948, rather than limiting such a status only to the original refugees, as is the norm with most refugee populations worldwide.
The preliminary findings of the inquiry into UNRWA found “credible and corroborated” allegations of serious ethical abuses, but revealed
no “fraud or misappropriation of operational funds” by Krahenbuhl, the UN said at the time.
After resigning, Krahenbuhl himself described an atmosphere of “hyperpolarization” around the agency.
UNRWA at the time was facing attacks by the administration of former US president Donald Trump, which
along with Israel accused it of perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2018, Washington decided to suspend, then stop entirely its contribution to the agency’s budget, depriving it of its largest donor and sparking a funding crunch.
US President Joe Biden’s administration later fully restored the country’s support.
