Enough is enough. UNRWA must be dissolved and replaced.
In the last few weeks, it has been revealed that:
- 12 UNRWA staff took part in the October 7th massacre
- 1,200 UNRWA staff in Gaza are members of terrorist groups
- 3,000 UNRWA teachers were in a Telegram group that celebrated October 7th
- Hamas built a terror tunnel directly below UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza, hiding a computer intelligence center that was powered by the agency’s electrical grid
The UN and its secretary-general Antonio Guterres cannot pretend they are “horrified” by this news.
Because for the last decade, UN Watch sent them countless warnings about UNRWA staff support for terrorism. The UN did nothing, except to attack the messenger.
That terrorism would find a haven in UNRWA is no surprise. The entire purpose of the agency is to perpetuate grievance, hatred, and war, by refusing to resettle Arab refugees from 1948 and their descendants.
Today, UNRWA absurdly deems 70% of Gaza’s population — who live in what they call Palestine — as “refugees.”
Since its creation in 1949, the agency has brainwashed Gazans into believing that their home is not Gaza, but rather on the other side of the fence, in Israel.
There is a direct line between this narrative, part of a radicalization process that took place over many years in UNRWA schools, and the invasion of Israel by thousands of Gazan terrorists breaking through the fence and massacring Israeli civilians on October 7th. For Hamas, they were merely exercising their UNRWA-promoted “right of return.”
The lie that UNRWA’s humanitarian work is “irreplaceable” is now being used to further entrench the agency’s poisonous ideology of Palestinian “return” to Israel.
Don’t let your government continue spending your money on the radicalization of Gaza. Humanitarian aid and UNRWA’s toxic mandate must be immediately decoupled.
Aid should flow through other agencies which already operate in Gaza, and which are experts at this task everywhere else in the world, such as the WHO, the World Food Programme, or UNICEF.
Enough is enough. It’s time to stop the perverse logic of an agency that perpetuates war. It’s time to replace UNRWA.
Sign the petition here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/replace-unrwa/
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