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A House committee is expected to open an investigation into a United Nations agency that provides aid to Palestinians over alleged ties to Hamas, according to a report.
According to the New York Post, the House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to investigate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East, also known as UNRWA.
California Rep. Darrell Issa told the media that there was evidence of a connection between the UN agency and Hamas.
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“There is extensive evidence of a worrying connection between UNRWA and Hamas, and it goes far deeper than previously known,” Issa said. “Congress must now investigate and uncover the extent of what UNRWA knew, what it did and what it may be hiding from the world.”
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UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini speaks to the media on an update on the UNRWA Commissioner General's visit to Gaza, the third since the start of the war on October 7, during the UNHCR Global Refugee Forum (GRF) in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday December 14 , 2023. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
Since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, disturbing reports about UNRWA have emerged.
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An Israeli citizen taken hostage by the Hamas terrorist group said he was held in the attic of a UNRWA teacher for 50 days, according to the Jerusalem Post.
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On October 11, Israeli airstrikes caused destruction in Gaza City. (AP/Adel Hana)
The State Department under former President Trump severed ties with UNRWA in 2018, with the agency calling the organization an “irretrievably flawed operation.”
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However, President Biden restored the relationship in June 2021.
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SOUTHERN ISRAEL – NOVEMBER 22: Smoke from Gaza City fills the sky in the distance as an Israeli tank heads toward the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on November 22, 2023. The start of a four-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which would bring a pause in fighting and the release of about 50 hostages, had not been announced as of Wednesday morning. In the hours after the deal was announced, airstrikes appeared to have continued in Gaza. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
A spokesman for Rep. Brian Mast of Florida, chairman of the panel's oversight subcommittee, told the Post: “He also supports an investigation, to put it mildly.”