TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israel lauds US ban on UNRWA financing until 2025 under new government funding bill
Jacob Magid
March 23, 2024

The US Congress passed a massive appropriations package early Saturday including a one-year ban on US funding to UNRWA. The ban is the latest blow to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees, following allegations earlier this year that 12 of its employees actively participated in Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught and that many others have ties to terror groups. The approved legislation banned UNRWA funding “for any amounts provided in prior fiscal years or in fiscal year 2024, or for amounts provided in fiscal year 2025, until March 25, 2025.” The clause was separated from the rest of the appropriations package and is stipulated as a calendar-year ban, which leaves open the potential for allocating any leftover funds to UNRWA after March 2025. READ MORE