Every year, the U.S. government funds international organizations that support or cooperate with Hamas, not to mention others that simply ignore its crimes. Bonnie Glick and Richard Goldberg urge Congress to amend upcoming appropriations bills to put a stop to this:
Take the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for starters. This organization runs schools in the West Bank and Gaza that explicitly teach kids to hate Jews and of course Israel. Many of its staff members are members of terrorist groups such as Hamas. Its facilities are used by Hamas to launch attacks and build terror tunnels. Employees stand accused of celebrating October 7 and even holding some of Hamas’s Israeli hostages in their homes.
UNRWA does not submit the names of its staff, contractors, or beneficiaries to the U.S. for counterterrorism vetting. And so, despite funding UNRWA with over $1 billion under the Biden administration, there is no accountability in terms of who has access to that money.
The same goes for the International Committee of the Red Cross, to which the U.S. will send another $600-700 million this year as if on autopilot. This, while the Red Cross refuses to pressure Hamas to allow medical visits to the hostages it kidnapped, and after an apparent cover-up of Hamas’s use of hospitals as both terror base camps and holding centers for hostages.
It gets worse. While the Red Cross won’t visit Jewish hostages held in Gaza, its staff does visit Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails to sign them up for the Palestinian Authority’s “pay to slay” program—a policy that gives government benefits to the families of those who commit terrorist attacks against Israel.
Read more on The Hill: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4422336-cut-funding-for-orgs-that-empower-hamas/