The terror-infested United Nations Relief Works Agency, which long has held power in the Middle East, processing and allocating aid to a Palestinian population in Gaza beleaguered by the terrorism of Hamas, is demanding a central role in plans to rebuild the region.
The demands come as a multi-stage peace plan created by President Donald Trump begins to take effect, even despite outbreaks of violence that still are occurring.
Reports reveal that UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini is demanding authority in the rehabilitation program, stating, “UNRWA, with its thousands of Palestinian personnel, has the capacity, expertise and community trust required to provide healthcare, education and other public services to a devastated population.”
In a commentary, he demanded, “For decades, the agency’s teachers, doctors and engineers have formed a vital part of a functioning system of public services for millions of Palestinian refugees in Gaza and the region.”
Problematic, however, is the fact that Secretary of State Marco Rubio already has described the UNRWA as a “subsidiary of Hamas,” the terror organization that launched its war against Israel in 2023, invading and killing some 1,200 innocent civilians and kidnapping hundreds more.
The last of those hostages just were released in recent days, and even now the bodies of some of the hostages who were murdered have yet to be returned.
Rubio said, of plans to rebuild in Gaza, “UNRWA’s not going to play any role in it The United Nations is here. They’re on the ground. We’re willing to work with them if they can make it work, but not UNRWA. UNRWA became a subsidiary of Hamas.”
A new report posted at CBN explains that an investigation, 10 years long, has “uncovered the truth about terrorist infiltration and indoctrination within UNRWA. UN Watch discovered that 500 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees were ‘involved in terrorism. incitement, and membership in extremist organizations.’”
That means that international aid to Gaza, if UNRWA gets its way, would be directed to members of terror organizations.
The report continued, “UN Watch asserts that it conducted 10 years of research, discovering that nearly 500 UNRWA employees were involved in terrorism, incitement, and membership in extremist organizations. The group is calling on the United States to ‘take definitive action to dismantle UNRWA.’”
UNRWA has claimed the allegations are not true.
“But one year ago, Israel passed a law banning UNRWA’s operations with Palestinians, thereby ending its cooperation with the agency, which had begun in June 1967,” the report said.
“Here at CBN News, we’ve reported for years on how UNRWA has educated young Palestinians to wage jihad against Israel. In one of our reports, David Bedeen of the Center for Near East Policy Research displayed a page from a textbook used by UNRWA featuring imagery of a female terrorist,” CBN confirmed.
Bedeen said, “This is Dalal Mughrabi, who murdered 36 Jews in a terror attack in 1978. And she’s glorified in this book, and there’s a whole curriculum for her run by UNRWA.”
U.S. taxpayers had been funding the UNRWA at the rate of about $400 million a year, until Trump’s administration froze those payments when he took office for his second term.
