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Israeli soldiers take up position as they enter the UNRWA headquarters, where the military discovered tunnels underneath the U.N. agency that the military says Hamas militants used to attack its forces during a ground operation in Gaza, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City, alleging that Hamas militants used the space as an electrical supply room. The unveiling of the tunnels marked the latest chapter in Israel's campaign against the embattled agency, which it accuses of collaborating with Hamas. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

‘UNRWA at War’: New film shows U.N. agency teaching kids to kill in Judea and Samaria

By David Isaac – JNS.org

Philippe Lazzarini, under-secretary-general of the United Nations and commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), speaks during a news conference at their compound following a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, May 23, 2021, in Gaza City. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Israel gives U.N. Palestinian agency list of 100 terrorist staffers

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Israeli soldiers drive a tank on the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

House Republicans launch probe into White House’s funding of group with ties to Hamas

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Palestinian demonstrators stand in front of the gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), demanding that the agency fulfil promises to compensate them for losses to their homes during the 2014 war, in Gaza City, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. The protest revealed public desperation amid ongoing efforts to alleviate Gaza's housing crisis, including an Egyptian-funded project that aims to complete 1,400 apartments by the end of this year. Arabic reads "We demand the UNRWA to pay the compensation that we signed with the agency.", "We demand UNRWA to pay compensation for the 2014 aggression.", "Eight years of suffering while we are waiting for our compensation, which is a legal right for every affected refugee." - Victims of the 2014 aggression". (AP Photo/Adel Hana, file)

Republicans move to cut off funding permanently to Hamas-linked U.N. relief agency

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Israelis visit the site where revelers were killed and kidnapped on Oct. 7 cross-border attack by Hamas militants at the Nova music festival near Kibbitz Reim, southern Israel, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

U.N. relief agency fires Gaza employees accused of joining Hamas massacre

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Local Palestinian staff for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency package rice, lentils and chickpeas for refugee families to be distributed in Gaza City. The international agency is one of the biggest employers in an area where the jobless rate is 44 percent. (Photograph by Laura Kelly/The Washington Times)

UNRWA Palestinian refugee agency faces funding cut

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

File - In this Tuesday, April 25, 2017 file photo, Jerusalem Mayor, Nir Barkat speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in Jerusalem. Brake is calling on the international community to consider his proposal to end the local operations of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, saying there is &quot;no such thing&quot; as a refugee in the city. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

AP Interview: Jerusalem mayor wants UN agency out of city

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Israeli policemen stand at then entrance of Barkan industrial zone in the West Bank Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018. A Palestinian attacker opened fire at a joint Israeli-Palestinian industrial zone in the West Bank Sunday, killing two Israelis and seriously wounding a third, the military said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

AP Interview: Jerusalem mayor wants UN agency out of city

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

File - In this Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018 file photo, girls sit inside a classroom at an UNRWA school during the first day of a new school year in Gaza City. A spokesman for the Palestinian president says the American decision to cut funding for the U.N. agency aiding Palestinian refugees is &quot;an attack on the rights of the Palestinian people.&quot; The U.S. supplies nearly 30 percent of the total budget of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, and had been demanding it carry out significant reforms. The decision cuts nearly $300 million of planned support. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Palestinians condemn US ending funding for UN refugee agency

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Illustration on UNRWA’s support for the “Palestinians” by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Palestine refugee funding: Align UN with US law

By Daniel Pipes

UNRWA condemns killing of U.N. staff member by Israeli forces

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times