US freezes aid to UN Palestinian refugee agency after 12 employees accused of collaborating with Hamas

The United States has suspended its funding of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWAAccording to its abbreviation in English) after Israel will charge 12 members that organization has to provide Material support for the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, which led to the current war in Gaza that is spreading to Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq. This decision has been adopted by the State Department, which has conveyed its concern to the United Nations.

Although the suspension is temporary, it lasts over time This could be a huge economic blow For UNRWA. According to the organization itself, the United States Last year it contributed 29.3% to the budget of the agency, which amounted to $1,174 million (1,081 million euros). The decision comes as UNRWA faces an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in Gaza, where more than two million Palestinians are stranded without access to medicines, food or drinking water.

Joe Biden had started again Financial contribution to UNRWA April 2021His predecessor, Donald Trump, had suspended him in September 2018, at the request of Nikki Haley, his then ambassador to the United Nations and current rival in the Republican Party primaries. According to US media, after visiting a Palestinian refugee camp, Haley decided to request a one-on-one meeting with Trump to explain to UNRWA the importance of canceling aid, without interference from other advisers.

The current crisis in relations between the US and UNRWA began when S.Israeli spy services Shin Bethwhich is in charge of security within the Jewish state – although, paradoxically, its jurisdiction includes Gaza and the West Bank, which are not part of it – and AMAN – which is military intelligence – sent information to UNRWA that showed that 12 people

that organization had Actively supported the October 7 terrorist attacks till deliver vehicle From the United Nations to Hamas and allowing the terrorists of that organization Deploy UN warehouses,

Apparently, the people involved were local contractors, ie. They were not part of the United Nations staff, which would have been much more serious. The information was obtained by Israel andn Interrogation of Hamas terrorists Captured in battle.