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The IDF discovered documents in Gaza that show the overlap between UNRWA and Hamas. UNRWA staff took part in the October 7, 2023 atrocities, and several thousand UNRWA employees turn out to be Hamas operatives. UNRWA buildings have been used by Hamas to store weapons, and Hamas has even built one of its data centers under UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters. Now, on the basis of this evidence, American families of terror victims of Hamas are suing UNRWA for its support of the terror group.
More on this lawsuit, which if successful — there are 200 plaintiffs — could be catastrophic for UNRWA’s finances, can be found here: “US Families File Lawsuit Accusing UNRWA of Supporting Hamas, Hezbollah,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, August 8, 2025:
American families of victims of Hamas and Hezbollah attacks have filed a lawsuit against the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, accusing the organization of violating US antiterrorism laws by providing material support to the Islamist terror groups behind the deadly assaults.
Last week, more than 200 families filed a lawsuit in a Washington, DC district court accusing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) of violating US antiterrorism laws by providing funding and support to Hamas and Hezbollah, both designated as foreign terrorist organizations.
The lawsuit alleges that UNRWA employs staff with direct ties to the Iran-backed terror group, including individuals allegedly involved in carrying out attacks against the Jewish state.
However, UNRWA has firmly denied the allegations, labeling them as “baseless” and condemning the lawsuit as “meritless, absurd, dangerous, and morally reprehensible.”
According to the organization, the lawsuit is part of a wider campaign of “misinformation and lawfare” targeting its work in the Gaza Strip, where it says Palestinians are enduring “mass, deliberate and forced starvation.”
The UN agency reports that more than 150,000 donors across the United States have supported its programs providing food, medical aid, education, and trauma assistance in the war-torn enclave amid the ongoing conflict.
How many of those American donors who have contributed to UNRWA in the past will want to continue to do so when the evidence is presented in court of its ties to the terror group Hamas?
In a press release, UNRWA USA affirmed that it will continue its humanitarian efforts despite facing legal challenges aimed at undermining its work.
“Starvation does not pause for politics. Neither will we,” the statement read.
Those legal challenges are not “aimed at undermining its work,” but at making UNRWA pay a price for its links to Hamas, whose terrorists killed relatives of the plaintiffs. It’s not only that thousands of UNRWA’s staff in Gaza were Hamas members, but UNRWA allowed Hamas to use its structures, such as its schools, to store its weapons, and did nothing to stop Hamas from putting its data center directly underneath UNRWA’s headquarters in Gaza.
Last year, Israeli security documents revealed that of UNRWA’s 13,000 employees in Gaza, 440 were actively involved in Hamas’s military operations, with 2,000 registered as Hamas operatives.
According to these documents, at least nine UNRWA employees took part directly in the terror group’s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of and massacre across southern Israel….
And will UNRWA fire those 2,000 members of its staff in Gaza who are Hamas operatives? UNRWA has so far failed to do so, but perhaps this lawsuit will make it reconsider.
During this trial, the full extent of UNRWA’s collaboration with Hamas in Gaza will be laid out. The American government had already ceased to provide money to UNRWA in January 2024, following the revelations about members of its staff taking part in the October 7, 2023 attack. What other countries, because of the evidence that will be presented at this trial, will now go and do likewise?
