UNRWA Funding: State Department’s Temporary Funding Pause for UNRWA Met with Skepticism

The State Department moved to temporarily suspend funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East after the agency revealed today that Israel has presented it with evidence that twelve of its employees took part in the October 7 terrorist attacks.

The allegations that Israel presented to the U.N. were apparently serious enough that UNRWA — which has bristled at external reporting on its employees’ links to terror — fired several staff members and launched an investigation into the situation. Senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said today that the UNRWA staffers had allegedly taken part in the October 7 attack and the kidnapping of Israelis.

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The State Department moved to temporarily suspend funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East after the agency revealed today that Israel has presented it with evidence that twelve of its employees took part in the October 7 terrorist attacks.

The allegations that Israel presented to the U.N. were apparently serious enough that UNRWA — which has bristled at external reporting on its employees’ links to terror — fired several staff members and launched an investigation into the situation. Senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said today that the UNRWA staffers had allegedly taken part in the October 7 attack and the kidnapping of Israelis.