Exclusive | UN watchdog group urges dismantling of UNRWA for enabling crimes against humanity

A United Nations watchdog group says the infamous UN relief agency that provides $1.5 billion a year to Palestinians should be disbanded for colluding with terrorists and “enabling crimes against humanity.”“The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is neither independent nor neutral,” says a scathing new report by the Swiss-based group UN WATCH.“UNRWA’s senior management not only employs individuals tied to Hamas terrorism but also allows terrorist groups like Hamas to influence and obstruct critical agency decisions and policies.“UNRWA’s failure to maintain neutrality, combined with its susceptibility to influence from terrorist groups, undermines its credibility as a humanitarian agency and perpetuates conflict in the region,” the group said.“It is time for donors to reconsider their support, dismantle the Agency, and seek alternative frameworks to provide effective aid to Palestinians in need.”More than 10% of main and senior education staff employed by UNRWA in the Gaza Strip are members of Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to another scathing report published last year.The UN Watch report included these shocking alleged examples of the relief agency’s ties to terrorists:“UNRWA is no longer a humanitarian agency — it has become a full-fledged partner to terrorist organizations like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, to The Post.“Western taxpayers are funding a $1.5 billion organization that actively collaborates with those who glorify violence and seek the destruction of Israel.

This is an outrage,” he said.Neuer particularly cited UNRWA allowing Hamas leader Fathi Al-Sharif to run one if its schools, which he said amounts to complicity with terrorism.It’s long past time to dismantle the UNRWA — created in 1949 — and replace it with a credible, terror-free alternative, he said.“The US and Western nations funding UNR...