UNRWA Has Misused More than One Billion Dollars in U.S. Taxpayer Aid Sent to Gaza Since October 2023

According to American senator Tom Cotton, more than $1 billion of humanitarian aid intended for Gazan civilians could have fallen into Hamas’s hands. He is now calling for the federal government to suspend the aid until it can rectify the problem.

He wrote a letter to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), raising concerns about the money being sent: “Credible reporting indicates that Hamas terrorists have diverted this aid; indisputable evidence demonstrates that the aid was always at high risk of diversion.”

“On September 30, your agency announced approximately $336 million in additional humanitarian funding for Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. On the same day, the United Nations acknowledged that Fateh al-Sharif, a Hamas leader in Lebanon killed in an Israeli airstrike, was employed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.”

“UNRWA, a major USAID partner before October 7, remains a chief conduit for UN humanitarian assistance in Gaza despite extensive evidence of its ties to Hamas,” Cotton continued.

“When American aid flows to Israel’s enemies – who are also our enemies – USAID is guilty of moral failure, strategic catastrophe, and betrayal of the American taxpayer. You should immediately suspend all aid until taking credible and serious steps to stop Americans’ tax dollars from funding terrorists,” he concluded. (GR / VFI News)

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