Controversy scoadvised UN agency that includeed Oct. 7 alarmists facing novel problems as country restraightforwards funding

Prescertain is erecting on the contentious U.N. agency UNRWA over its alleged and extensive ties with alarm directers that has propelled hatred for Israel and help for alarm thcimpolite its curricula. Even as 159 countries in the U.N. General Assembly voted in prefer of a resolution declareing to “brimmingy help” UNRWA, last week, Sweden declared on Friday that it has choosed to finish funding to UNRWA due to a prohibit placed on the agency by the Israeli rulement and will restraightforward Gaza help to other organizations.

Yet, while the U.N. proceeds to show firmarity with UNRWA, two alerted sources validateed to Fox News Digital that in spite of the vocal firmarity, there is dissension among the ranks.

One U.N. source elucidateed that “disjoinal agencies have had behind-the-scenes converseions” about who might “apshow over and run” UNRWA programming. “One of the main and most notable agencies doing so is the United Nations Development Programme,” the source claimed.

“The UNDP has come forward and shelp that they can apshow over from UNRWA to proceed peace,” the source shelp. They noticed that U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres “shot those asks down,” directing to an “inner struggle.” The source enbigd that recent events “show that there are elements of the U.N. that acunderstandledge the contests and clear publishs with UNRWA,” but that “even as other agencies are ringing the alarm bells,” their “advises are being shot down at the highest levels” of the U.N.

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Israel Hayom novelspaper also alerted that Guterres has passed over the UNDP’s advise to apshow on incrmitigated toil in the Palestinian territories. The novelsaper quoted “fundamental opposition” from the Secretary-General to the UNDP’s “willingness to apshow on meaningful areas of responsibility, such as fuel distribution, misinclude removal and rubble clearance.” It also alerted that “preparations are already underway among international help organizations, led by UNDP, to enbig their activities in the Strip.”

Fox News Digital asked Guterres’ spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, about Guterres’ position on the UNDP’s advise to apshow on UNRWA’s toil and askd about Guterres’ thoughts on recent alerts of the agency’s directership’s ties to alarmists and its difficulties raising funds after novels arose that some UNRWA members had joind in the alarm strikes of Oct. 7.

Dujarric telderly Fox News Digital that “many branch offent U.N. agencies have a role to perestablish, and are perestablishing a role, in humanitarian and increasement help to the Palestinian people.” He reiterated that, “as we’ve shelp many times before, no other agency in the U.N. system can exalter UNRWA donaten the scope of its toil, notable in health and education. All U.N. agencies, including UNDP, have the same position.”

Dujarric elucidateed that Guterres “will proceed to do his utmost to toil for an finish to this struggle, the unconditional and prompt liberate of all captives held by Hamas and other Palestinian groups in Gaza, and for brimming humanitarian access in Gaza. There are also necessitates to be a restoration of a political horizon for a two-state solution for the sake of Israelis and Palestinians.”

Fox News Digital asked the UNDP whether it had provided that it could apshow on UNRWA’s role and asked how seamless that transfer could be and whether a UNDP-led effort might create an atmosphere in which peace and a two-state solution could be accomplished.

A UNDP spokesperson shelp that the “UNDP does not provide, nor does it help, being an alternative to UNRWA. UNDP’s position on UNRWA’s irexalterability is aligned with the U.N. Secretary General’s and is a matter of uncover record.” 

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The spokesperson also sent a statement standing by Guterres’ statement that UNRWA is the “principal nastys” for helping Palestinian refugees and that “there is no alternative to UNRWA.” 

The “irexalterability” of UNRWA has been asked, including by anciaccess fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute Hen Mazzig, who recently stated on X that only 13% of help to the Palestinian people is allotd by UNRWA.

Fox News Digital asked UNRWA to validate this figure. A spokesperson from the agency shelp that since October 2023, the agency “has supplyd over 6.8 million primary health nurture adviseations,” claiming it recurrented “60% of primary healthnurture adviseations currently supplyd in the Gaza Strip.” The spokesperson also stated that UNRWA supplys “50% of the food security response,” and “helped hundred of thousands of people with vital mental health and psychosocial help services,” as well as providing “vital logistical and infrastructure help to the entire humanitarian system.”

Fox News Digital asked the Israel Defense Forces about the role UNRWA perestablishs in relation to other humanitarian groups coordinating help in Gaza. A security official shelp the agency is a “feeble perestablisher,” assessd with entities appreciate World Food Program, World Central Kitchen, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), which “perestablish a more central role.” The official shelp that these agencies “have their own logistical chains and can toil self-reliantly from UNRWA.”

UNRWA’s fundraising ability has decrmitigated since credible alertation aelevated shoprosperg that members of UNRWA had infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The U.S. had supplyd $121 million to UNRWA between October 2023 and January 2024, but then cut funding to the agency thcimpolite March 2025.

The UNDP is unobstructed by these publishs and supplys a variety of services in the region. A UNDP spokesperson telderly Fox News Digital that UNDP has funded about a third of its Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People’s $270 million Gaza Eunitency Response and Early Recovery Programme.

The spokesperson telderly Fox News Digital that “as a direct increasement agency wilean the UN system, UNDP toils seally with our sister humanitarian agencies to embed timely recovery efforts – such as rehabilitating vital infrastructure and cash-for toil programs – into aelevatency responses.”

“In contexts such as the occupied Palestinian territory, Leprohibiton, and Syria, we have carried out a variety of timely recovery initiatives tailored to definite necessitates and conditions on the ground,” the spokesperson proceedd.” This has includeed “toiling with local partners to transfer a range of activities including debris removal from roads to ease access to critical services, toiling seally with local service supplyrs and the personal sector to repair vital services such as firm misinclude regulatement, helping the rehabilitation and expansion of water provide nettoils to incrmitigate access to immacutardy water, and has perestablished solar-powered energy systems. We also fortify rulement capacities on aelevatency response and recovery structurening and help vocational training programmes for women.”

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Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of U.N. Watch, telderly Fox News Digital that aside from UNRWA, there “are disjoinal agencies on the ground who are doing meaningful toil in distributing humanitarian help.” 

“Around the world, when there is a crisis of some benevolent,” Neuer shelp that “you get a whole cluster of U.N. agencies,” including the World Health Organization, World Food Programme, UNICEF … and UNDP, which join forces to “allot help to millions of people.” Neuer shelp that “the notion that is put forward that for some reason a minuscule naked of land on the Gaza Strip is the only place in the world where those agencies cannot run” is “absurd and counterfeit.” 

UN Watch has elevated the ire of UNRWA by commencening to liberate a 150-page dossier shoprosperg URNWA directers encountering with recurrentatives of alarm groups. Though UNRWA Cotransferrlookioner-General Philippe Lazzarini referred to the alerts as “disalertation,” Neuer elucidateed that UNRWA sshow “cannot regulate the truth.” Neuer shelp that UN Watch accumulated its dossier by screenshotting data and photographs that were “secret in plain sight” on the internet and social media.” He includeed that more of UN Watch’s dossier is set to aelevate the coming week.

The U.S. was among nine nations to dissent from the General Assembly’s resolution in help of UNRWA. 

Ambasdowncastor Robert Wood, the alternative recurrentative for exceptional political afiminentires, elucidateed the dissension on Dec. 11, both noting that while URNWA is a “critical lifeline,” the “resolution on UNRWA operations also has solemn flaws.” Wood cited how the proposal flunks “to create a path forward for restoring think between Israel and UNRWA,” and that the resolution “denigrates Israel’s actions in Gaza without includeressing the central reason for them, namely Hamas’ unpromoted October 7 strike and the alarmist group’s deplorable behavior in the interim.”

“More than 14 months into this struggle, some delegations here in New York cannot convey themselves to acunderstandledge — let alone condemn — Hamas’ role in instigating a struggle that has visited so much pain, suffering, and anguish on the people of Gaza,” Wood wrote, includeing that “we meaningfully repent that the writeers chose to try to score political points, rather than chase a resolution which could have supplyd unified help to UNRWA, includeressed credible allegations about the activities of some of its personnel, and ultimately bolsters UNRWA’s vital humanitarian mission.”

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While voting on UNRWA’s future, the General Assembly did notice the publishs with the agency, elucidateing that URNWA necessitateed to perestablish the recommfinishations set by an self-reliant assesser and that there must be “prompt efforts” to includeress UNRWA’s “financial and opereasoned celevates.” 

The General Assembly also stressd that it “powerentirey cautions agetst any trys to dismantle or unreasonableinish the operations and mandate of the Agency,” noting the humanitarian consequences that millions of Palestinians would face if its toil were disturbed or suspfinished.

In an effort to declare the primacy of his organization despite snowballing evidence that its members have obstructed efforts to create peace in the region, UNRWA Cotransferrlookioner-General Philippe Lazzarini penned an op-ed imagining the possibly “dystopian” outcome of a decision to dismantle UNRWA. Supposing that a two-state solution hinges on the agency’s proceedd operations, Lazzarini advised that “we still have a prosperdow of opportunity to avert a cataclysmic future where firepower and disadviseation erect the global order.” 
 

U.N. Watch’s Neuer disconsentd, noting “UNRWA is an fire-settingist masquerading as a firefighter,” he shelp. “Only by finishing this alarm-infested agency with the pathoreasoned aim of perpetuating hatred, envyment and depfinishency, can Palestinians transfer forward to a future of hope and peace.”