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Source: https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/cry-me-a-river-unrwa/
UNRWA Just Perpetuates the Conflict
(Commentary) Seth Mandel - When Ditza Heiman, 84, was released from Hamas captivity, she revealed that she was held in Gaza for 53 days under the watchful eye of a teacher from the UN agency in Gaza, UNRWA. Israel said hundreds of UNRWA employees were moonlighting with one of Gaza's terrorist groups, the head of the UNRWA teachers union was also Hamas's top official in Lebanon, the agency shared facilities with Hamas command centers, and rockets were stored in UNRWA schools and the Hamas tunnels underneath them. Why on earth was UNRWA given free rein in Gaza for so long? An agency funded by hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money does nothing but perpetuate the conflict. We are told that the vote by the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) against UNRWA will deprive over 650,000 children of an education, but the "education" provided by UNRWA schools teaches children to venerate terrorists and to hate Jews. Actual refugees deserve help from refugee agencies. But that work isn't being done by UNRWA, which is why UNRWA should not be doing any work at all.