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Congressional Hearing Spotlights UNRWA Failures
(i24News) Mike Wagenheim - The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing Tuesday on "UNRWA Exposed: Examining the Agency's Mission and Failures." "UNRWA absolutely did unconscionable things," said Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), Chair of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability. "Certainly a large percentage of their employees are either a part of Hamas or some other terrorist organization or support Hamas or some other terrorist organization." Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) said, "UNRWA is committing wholesale child abuse against Palestinian youth. It's teaching them to hate every single day." Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) said, "There's overwhelming evidence that UNRWA is clearly flawed to the core, that it isn't just a couple of bad apples, that it is a systemic issue." He said there is a growing bipartisan group in favor of humanitarian aid and education, "but there's other agencies to handle that and it's time for UNRWA to disappear."