UNRWA+Compromised



The [|United Nations Relief and Works Agency] (UNRWA) has provided an internationally-funded system of schools and social services for the 1948 Palestinian refugees and their descendants for the past 60 years. But according to accumulating evidence, its humanitarian mission has been compromised.

• [|Schools] administered by UNRWA have used classroom materials that glorify or honor terrorists and terrorism, and continue to use textbooks that include biased and negative references to Jews and the state of Israel, or omit any reference of Israel’s location on a map entirely.

• UNRWA has [|employed] staff affiliated with terrorism like Said Sayyam who is the Hamas Minister of Interior and Civil Affairs and the organization does not screen its payroll for members of terrorist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

• UNRWA's own representative in New York, Andrew Whitley, [|revealed] to congressional staff that UNRWA provided Cash Assistance to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.

• [|The New York Times] recently exposed that a new al-Qaeda cell, Fatah al-Islam, was organizing, training, and plotting attacks against the United States from an UNRWA camp in Lebanon.

• UNRWA [|does not track] recording, deleting, renaming, or manipulating of financial records by its staff or volunteers. This may not technically comply with section 301 (c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, which ensures that American taxpayers’ dollars do not fund terrorism, because no one is sure that all of the money is used by UNRWA.