US pauses funding for UNRWA following claims of Oct. 7 attack involvement

[KARAH RUCKER]

THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS PUT A PAUSE ON FUNDING FOR A UNITED NATIONS AGENCY THAT PROVIDES AID FOR PALESTINIANS AFTER LEARNING SOME OF ITS EMPLOYEES WERE ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN THE OCT. 7 TERROR ATTACK ON ISRAEL.

THE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY – OR THE UNRWA – PROVIDES ASSISTANCE FOR PALESTINIANS IN GAZA.

THE U.S. HAS LONG BEEN THE AGENCY’S BIGGEST SINGLE DONOR.

INCLUDING UNDER PRESIDENT BIDEN WHOSE ADMINISTRATION HAS GIVEN MORE THAN $900 MILLION IN THREE YEARS.

FOR DECADES THE U.S. HAS GIFTED BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE GROUP, EXCLUDING YEARS UNDER FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP –

WHO STOPPED GIVING MONEY OUT OF CONCERNS THE AGENCY WAS QUOTE “IRREDEEMABLY FLAWED.”

NOW, ONCE AGAIN – U.S. MONEY TO THE UNRWA IS ON PAUSE.

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS WITHHOLDING DONATIONS AFTER ISRAEL CLAIMED SOME OF THE AGENCY’S STAFF WAS INVOLVED IN THE OCTOBER SEVENTH ATTACK ON ISRAEL.

THE UN AGENCY ALSO HAS A REPUTATION FOR BEING ANTI-SEMITIC.

AN ISRAEL NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION HAS FOUND EXAMPLES OF UNRWA TEACHERS PRAISING THE MASS MURDER OF JEWS.

THE STATE DEPARTMENT SAYS AROUND 12 EMPLOYEES WERE ACCUSED OF PARTICIPATING IN THE TERROR ATTACKS ON ISRAEL 

THE UNRWA SAID THE ACCUSED EMPLOYEES HAVE ALL BEEN FIRED AS THE AGENCY INVESTIGATES, ACCORDING TO CBS NEWS.