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United Nations’ Material Support for Terrorism: Allegedly Gave $1.3 Billion to Hamas in Cash, Presumably for Weapons
Con Coughlin
October 13, 2024

Accusations that the United Nations funded Hamas’s terrorist infrastructure by transferring $1.3 billion to the organisation, some of which was used to finance the purchase of weapons used in last year’s October 7 attacks, will only add to the view that the UN is no longer fit to fulfil the role for which it was originally intended. A lawsuit filed in US Federal Court by victims of the October 7 Hamas attacks makes damning accusations against the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) that it was involved in orchestrating a large-scale money laundering operation from which the terrorist organisation benefitted…The mounting scandal over the body’s involvement with Hamas, together with its institutional anti-Israel bias, indicates that no such reform has been undertaken and that the whole organisation is no longer fit for purpose. READ MORE

WASHINGTON EXAMINER Israel pushes to ban UNRWA from operating inside its borders U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield is pushing back on Israel’s efforts to stymie the United Nations Relief Works Agency from operating within its borders. Her comments come days after the Israeli Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committees approved two bills designed to bar the U.N. agency for Palestinians from operating “any institution, provide any service, or conduct any activity, whether directly or indirectly,” in Israel, according to the Jerusalem Post…

ALGEMEINER Tom Cotton Alleges UN Agency Has ‘Misused’ Over $1 Billion in Funds Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) penned a letter alleging that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) has “misused” over a billion dollars earmarked for humanitarian aid in Gaza…The senator laid blame on the Biden administration’s approach to the Israel-Hamas war for prolonging the conflict, allowing the Palestinian terrorist group to enrich themselves at the expense of American taxpayer

FUTURE OF JEWISH The UN’s All-Out War With Israel The corrupted and maligned United Nations has become a key player in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, serving entities and people who have no interest in seeing it resolved. It is important for the UN to aid and abet Israel’s self-declared enemies, no less jihadist terrorists, in their demented antisemitic mission to destroy the Jewish state using the most sinister, barbaric methods.