An investigation into staff at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has expanded to at least 1,500 individuals with suspected terror links.
“The USAID inspector general’s cases, coming in droves, are corroborating the obvious parent-subsidiary relationship between UNRWA and Hamas in Gaza,” a State Department official familiar with the matter told the Washington Free Beacon in an exclusive report. “If UNRWA was not a U.N. organization, it’d be undeniably facing terrorist sanctions based on what USAID IG has uncovered.” That ongoing USAID inspector general investigation, the source said, would logically lead to labeling UNRWA as a foreign terrorist group. If the probe “confirms that if it walks like an FTO and talks like an FTO and employs FTO personnel, a case exists that it should be an FTO.”
A second official told the outlet that there must be “consequences for UNRWA” for its “conduct in the run-up to and role in October 7, and continuing all the way to today with its ongoing refusal to adhere to legitimate and pressing American inquiries.”
In March, the United States debarred a former UNRWA official due to his alleged role in the October 7 attacks. According to an investigation by the U.S. Agency for International Development Office of the Inspector General (USAID OIG), Hafez Mousa Mohammed Mousa was an “operative of the Hamas East Jabaliya Battalion and coordinated communications with other suspected Hamas members during the October 7 attacks while serving as an UNRWA school principal.”
Ongoing investigations work to prevent the “recirculation of terrorist-affiliated actors across aid organizations operating in Gaza,” the OIG added. It also continues to work toward ensuring accountability for United Nations staff engaged in misconduct in the “performance of U.S.-funded awards.”
