On Friday, in response to revelations that employees for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees had participated in the atrocious Hams terrorist attack on October 7, the State Department announced they were freezing funding to the UNRWA.
But in reality that’s not really true. Our tax dollars are still going to fund UNRWA and here’s how we know:
On Friday, in response to allegations that employees of the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) had been involved in Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, the State Department announced that it had “temporarily paused additional funding” for the United Nations agency. The funding pause, however, applies only to new and additional funding, not funding already obligated before the pause went into effect on Wednesday, a State Department spokesperson told Pluribus.
When asked for details on what obligations would and would not be affected by the pause, the spokesperson directed Pluribus to a fact sheet released by the State Department on January 16, 2024.
The fact sheet reports that funding already committed or obligated to the UNRWA for fiscal 2024 for work in the West Bank and Gaza totaled $51 million as of January 16. Although the State Department did not directly answer questions about the amounts or the timing involved in distribution of funds, the spokesperson stated that “we are pausing any new or additional funding. Contributions to UNRWA that were not obligated as of January 24 are suspended, contributions to UNRWA obligated prior to this date remain in effect.”
The article points out that Trump suspended all funding to UNRWA in 2018 but Biden reversed that decision and has given the terrorists 1 billion since 2021. Now it appears we’re going to continue funding current projects and who knows how much of our tax dollars are still going to be given to these terrorists.