Dem Senator wants to restore funding to agency that funded terrorism

 American Action News:

Democratic Vermont Sen. Peter Welch reintroduced a bill Friday to restore congressional funding to the United Nations’ agency that employed terrorists who participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel.

Welch’s bill would restore U.S. contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), citing the agency’s role as the largest aid provider in Gaza. The United States has not contributed to UNRWA since the Biden administration paused funding to the agency in January 2024 following Israel’s accusation that at least 12 agency employees participated in Hamas’ attack.

UNRWA fired nine employees in August 2024 after finding they participated in the October 7th attacks. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said UNRWA staff with ties to Hamas “must be held accountable.”

Welch’s bill faces steep hurdles to becoming law given widespread opposition from President Donald Trump, Senate Republicans and some Democratic lawmakers to funding UNWRA over the agency’s ties to Hamas.

Trump signed an executive order barring funding for UNRWA on Feb. 3. The president also cut off congressional funding to UNRWA during his first term in August 2018.

“UNRWA has reportedly been infiltrated by members of groups long designated by the Secretary of State (Secretary) as foreign terrorist organizations, and UNRWA employees were involved in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel,” Trump wrote in the executive order.

United States Ambassador to the United Nations-designate Elise Stefanik has pledged to crack down on UNRWA, calling the agency a “pro-Hamas terrorist front group.”

“I can promise you, that as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, we are not only going to just defund UNRWA, we will totally dismantle it,” Stefanik said in a speech to the Anti-Defamation League’s “Never Is Now” Summit on Tuesday.
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Hamas has been very open about its genocidal attempt against the Israelis.  Supporting Hamas makes about as much sense as supporting the Nazis.  In other words, it makes no sense at all.  Hamas is a terrorist organization that should be eradicated. 

See also:

Trump admin axes first student visa over pro-Hamas protest crimes: State Department

And:

Liza Rosen

Flashback: Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad says they will repeat the “October 7 massacres” until Israel is annihilated along with its entire Jewish population.

Western countries must suspend all aid to Gaza until Hamas is gone.

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