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Defund the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Trump should defund, end UNRWA once and for all

By By Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Dr. Deborah Soffen

Palestinians wait for humanitarian aid airdrop in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Essa)

Israel ends agreement with U.N. agency providing aid in Gaza

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Hezbollah's deputy leader Sheik Naim Kassem, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Israeli strike in northern Gaza kills at least 60, officials say, as Hezbollah announces new leader

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

United Nations and Red Crescent workers prepare the aid for distribution to Palestinians at UNRWA warehouse in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah, File)

Israel wants to shut down the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. What would that mean?

By Joseph Krauss and Julia Frankel and Mel Lidman - Associated Press

Palestinians walk through the destruction left by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on April 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar, File)

Israel will pass laws next week restricting U.N. Palestinian relief agency from Gaza, West Bank

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A woman and her children walk past a wall with photographs of hostages who were kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas cross-border attack in Israel, Feb. 26, 2024, in Jerusalem. On Monday, June 24, Israelis who were taken hostage or lost loved ones during the attack filed suit against the United Nations agency that aids Palestinians, claiming it has helped finance the militants by paying agency staffers in U.S. dollars and thereby funneling them to money-changers in Gaza who allegedly give a cut to Hamas. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

U.N. fires nine UNRWA staffers after probe found they may have been involved in Oct. 7 attack

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Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of a UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023. An independent review released Monday, April 22, 2024, of the neutrality of UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the agency had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

U.N. investigators probe 14 Gaza aid staffers Israel had tied to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Germany will resume working with U.N. relief agency for Palestinians after a review

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Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of a UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023. An independent review released Monday, April 22, 2024, of the neutrality of UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the agency had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

Review of U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees found Israel did not express concern about staff

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

People protest against aid agency known as UNRWA in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

U.N. Relief and Works Agency is an inseparable arm of Hamas

By Arsen Ostrovsky and Asaf Romirowsky