United Nations – President Donald Trump In the first few weeks, he made major foreign policies, including a reduction in US financing with controversial agencies for help and actions in the United Nations for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA). UNRWA has long faced accusations of ties with terrorists, which intensified during the war of Israel-Hamas, which began with a massacre on October 7, 2023.
Former President Joe Biden initially cut off US funds for UNRWA in January 2024, months in the war, after Israel accused the UN agency members of participating in Hamas’s brutal attacks.
UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer said that Americans need to know that some UN agencies, such as UNRWA, based on “altruistic good intentions” but have “overturned in something that is completely opposite to what it should be ‘
President Donald Trump interrupted US funding for the United Nations’ assistance and work refugees for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East. (Getty)
UNRWA was founded in 1949 “to execute direct programs for relief and work for Palestinian refugees,” the Agency’s website states. However, Neuer challenges the status of the Palestinian refugees and says that the proposed download of President Trump has discovered “the truth that is hidden”.
Neuer points out that UNRWA’s supporters have accused Trump’s critics of the president’s proposal of “eradicating them [Palestinians] From their homes and countries, “which would mean” are not refugees. “Gaza, which the UN recognizes as part of the” Palestine State “will be considered their home under this criticism, denying their refugee status.
However, UNRWA problems go beyond ambiguous definitions. Neuer told Fox News Digital that the agency “systematically hired individuals who supported terrorism.” He pointed to Fathi al-Sharif, who served as the headmaster of the school managed by UNRWA, as well as the Union of the Agency’s teacher in Lebanon.
“We know that the UNRWA educational system chief, namely, a teacher, school principal and head of the Teachers Association of 2,000 teachers in Lebanon, was a man named Fathi al-Sharif … He was the head of Hamas in Lebanon,” Neuer said, adding that the money of US taxpayers was funded by the al-Sharif and the “whole education system that was overseen.”
In the case of Suhail al-Hindi, the former head of the “local staff in Gaza staff”, UNRWA-E, ” The agency insists on that that he suspended and fired al-Hindi after the announcement that he was “elected to a political duty with Hamas.”
In response to a commentary request, UNRWA told Fox News Digital that he “forbids any type of staff involving in a militant or armed group. As a UN representative, any involvement in a group promoting discrimination or violence violently violates the principle of neutrality UNRWA’s ability to provide services and refugee protection. “
Unrwa was especially related to the al-Hindi case, noting that “he also rejected another member of the staff whose name appeared on the list of those newly elected political duties of Hamas in Gaza.”
Contrary to the claims of critics, Neuer told Fox News Digital that Israel had not always tried to shut down UNRWA, saying that the Jewish state first experienced the agency as a “appropriate” in the late 1960s. However, Neuer said that the view of Israel on the agency had moved greatly, especially from the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
The photos published by Israeli defense forces show three people that Israeli military claims are terrorists Hamas within the UNRWA connection in Rafah. (IDF)
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In January 2024, UNRWA General Philippe Lazzarini’s commissioner ordered an investigation into any staff who allegedly participated in Hamas’s attacks, which he condemned in a statement. UNRWA told Fox News Digital that “after determining that individuals were truly members of the UNRWA” Lazzarini “immediately abolished their appointments.
At the end of last month, the Israeli Ambassador at the UN Danny Danon officially informed the Secretary General of the UN António Guterres from the request of Israel to stop UNRWA with operations in Jerusalem and evacuating his premises.
“The months of well-meaning engagement with the United Nations and the years of related complaints of transmitted UNRWA have encountered sharp disrespect, which is threatening their fundamental obligation of impartiality and neutrality outside the repair,” Danon wrote in the letter.
In a statement published last month, UNRWA spokesman Jonathan Fowler scored the laws issued by Israel in October 2024, saying that shortening a visa for UNRWA staff was “to be” emigrated “. Fowler confirmed This “UNRWA remains absolutely dedicated to staying and delivery,” referring to other agencies in the region.
Although Israel’s views on the agency changed, encouraging the action of the government of the country, Neuer points out that several countries, including the United States, failed to “take meaningful measures” against UNRWA. He called the last moves of the countries “mostly performance and limited.”
The protester holds the flag outside the United Nations Assistant and Work Agency during demonstration. (Ahmed Cost/Sopa Pictures/Lightctics via Getty Images)
When asked what Americans need to know about the UNRWA, Neuer says the agency is “a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” adding to the UN officials who say they have passed against their mission. He compared it to the social question that is usually discussed here, namely anti -religious.
“Just as the Americans have been said for at least the last 5 years – perhaps more – that anti -warism means that you have to distinguish whites, against the heterosexuals, you know, all kinds of categories, we have been told that it is tolerance, it is equality. We have been told that they are racism and discrimination anti-grassism and anti-discrimination.
Address of the UNRWA and the UNHRC Human Rights Council, Neuer added, “They They are not humanitarian agencies. These are agencies that systematically encouraged and legitimized terrorist groups from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, an Islamic regime in Iran. It’s a reality. “
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Asked by Fox News Digital of Neuer’s accusations, UNRWA rejected them and accused the UN of “spreading misinformation against” the agency.
“The Agency systematically inspects all the allegations of incomplete behavior, including a violation of the UN -AI value value, and triggers investigations into any credible allegations, applying disciplinary measures in which inconsistencies have been established, included, including separation,” for Fox News Digital.
President Trump Executive command called to the “Renewed Supervision” by UNHRC, UNRWA -EI UN -s educational, scientific and cultural organizations (UNESCO). In the order, the UNHRC is charged with “protecting human rights violations”, while UNESCO is wandering among other issues for its “reform failure.”
