{"id":2163024,"date":"2024-01-30T13:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T18:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-defends-unrwa-condemns-funding-pause-after-at-least-10-of-org-were-found-to-be-involved-with-hamas-islamic-jihad\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T13:24:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T18:24:42","slug":"aoc-defends-unrwa-condemns-funding-pause-after-at-least-10-of-org-were-found-to-be-involved-with-hamas-islamic-jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-defends-unrwa-condemns-funding-pause-after-at-least-10-of-org-were-found-to-be-involved-with-hamas-islamic-jihad\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC supports UNRWA, criticizes funding pause despite Hamas, Islamic Jihad links"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-defends-unrwa-condemns-funding-pause-after-at-least-10-of-org-were-found-to-be-involved-with-hamas-islamic-jihad%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2163024&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">House \u200cOversight and Accountability Committee member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u200d (D-NY) speaks to reporters as \u2064she is joined by fellow House Democrats in the Rayburn House Office Building on December 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. \u200b(Photo by \u2063Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Ocasio-Cortez Slams White House for Cutting Funding to UN \u200cAgency \u2062Involved in\u200c Terrorist Attack<\/h2>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/brooke-mallory\">Brooke Mallory<\/a><br \/>10:19 \u2063AM \u2013 \u200cTuesday, January 30, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez \u200cexpressed her \u2063outrage on Monday over the\u2063 White House\u2019s \u2064decision to stop\u2063 funding a United\u2062 Nations agency whose employees took part in the terrorist attack against\u2062 Israel on October 7<sup>th<\/sup> \u2064 by \u200dHamas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cCutting off support to @UNRWA \u2013 the primary source of humanitarian aid to 2 million+\u2063 Gazans \u2013 is unacceptable,\u201d said Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) who\u2062 reps parts \u2064of \u200bthe Bronx and\u200d Queens, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1751962808378421696\">posted on X<\/a> in response\u200d to the Biden administration\u2019s Friday \u200cmove against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency \u200bfor Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cAmong an \u200corganization of 13,000\u200b UN aid\u200b workers, risking the starvation of millions\u2062 over\u200d grave\u200c allegations of 12 is indefensible,\u201d \u200cshe added. \u201cThe \u2064US should restore aid\u200c immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>John Kirby, \u2063a spokesperson for the \u200bNational\u200b Security Council, stated on \u200c <em>NBC\u2019s <\/em>\u201cToday\u201d program that \u201cUNRWA does important work across the region, certainly in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThey have helped save thousands of\u2063 lives, and we shouldn\u2019t impugn the good\u2063 work of a\u200c whole agency because \u200bof the terrible, just terrible \u200callegations lobbied against just a small number of their employees,\u201d Kirby \u200dcontinued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Around the same time\u200b that \u200dKirby and Ocasio-Cortez\u200c made their statements,\u2062 the <em>Wall Street \u2062Journal <\/em>revealed that\u200b Israeli intelligence \u200cdiscovered that at \u2064least 12 UNRWA employees actively\u2064 participated\u2063 in the Hamas attack, which claimed an estimated 1,200 lives, at \u2062the least. Additionally, Mossad, \u200dIsrael\u2019s Institute for\u2064 Intelligence and Special Operations, revealed \u2062that approximately \u200d10% of \u200dthe\u200c organization\u2019s\u200b employees had ties to \u200deither the Palestinian Islamic Jihad \u2064or Hamas, \u2062and that half\u200c of the 12,000 \u2064employees \u200bhad close relatives who were members of either terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>Six of the individuals engaged in the Oct. 7<sup>th<\/sup> attack are said to\u2063 have participated\u2063 in the actual assault, while the remaining individuals oversaw logistics, including obtaining \u200dweapons. Two \u2064participated in the kidnapping of Israelis, while two more were traced\u200d to locations of the slaughter of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>When he took over presidential office in early 2021, President Joe Biden\u200d reinstated financing\u200d for UNRWA, which\u200c had been stopped by \u2064the previous administration of former President Donald Trump in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the U.S. \u2064has given the organization at least\u2064 $730 million, despite proof that it hires instructors \u200cwho incite anti-Israel sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli intelligence dossier states that seven of the twelve\u2064 UNRWA personnel engaged in the attack were teachers in elementary or secondary education.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AOC \u200bcoming out strong in \u2063favor of\u2062 the U.S. funding an organization that employs 1,200 Hamas and Palestinian \u200cIslamic Jihad terrorists, in case\u2064 there was any\u2062 doubt remaining about where she stands on \u200bthe issue. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Kzddlczbm\">https:\/\/t.co\/9Kzddlczbm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bungarsargon\/status\/1751969049867604102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How many police departments did you call to defund over a handful of highly publicized incidents? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TABi1yEo2n\">https:\/\/t.co\/TABi1yEo2n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noam \u200dBlum (@neontaster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neontaster\/status\/1751972640896455065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cRespectfully Congresswoman, it\u2019s \u2064way more\u200d than \u2062\u201912.\u2019 Read the reporting today in the WSJ &#038; the NYT. Support for Hamas is pervasive \u200cthroughout \u2064the @UNRWA. And has\u2063 been for years. The organization needs to\u200d be disbanded,\u201d said former \u2063US\u200c Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stay informed!\u200d Receive breaking news blasts directly to your inbox for free. Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this\u2062 post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Kim Yeater<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with \u200cRep. 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Mossad, Israel&#8217;s Institute\u200d for Intelligence and Special Operations, further disclosed\u2063 that around\u200d 10% of UNRWA&#8217;s employees had ties to either the Palestinian Islamic Jihad or Hamas, and that half of \u200bthe organization&#8217;s \u200bstaff had close relatives \u2063who\u2062 were\u200d members of these terrorist \u2064organizations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the intelligence dossier, six individuals engaged in the\u2062 attack\u2062 were directly \u2063involved\u200b in\u200c the assault, while others played logistical roles in obtaining weapons. Two individuals were implicated in the kidnapping \u2063of\u200c Israelis,\u2063 and\u2064 two more were traced \u200cto locations where\u200d civilians were slaughtered.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that President Joe Biden \u200dreinstated funding for UNRWA when\u2063 he took office in 2021, after the previous administration, led by \u2064Donald Trump, had ceased \u2064funding \u2063in 2018. Since then, the U.S. has provided at least $730 million to\u200b the organization, despite evidence of UNRWA \u2063hiring instructors who promote\u200d anti-Israel sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>The intelligence report states that seven of the twelve UNRWA\u200d personnel\u2064 involved \u2063in the attack were teachers in elementary or secondary\u200d education. This \u2064raises concerns about the indoctrination of students and the perpetuation of violence within \u2064the educational system.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063decision to \u200ccut funding \u2063to UNRWA is \u200da contentious\u200d issue. While some argue that the agency plays a crucial role in providing humanitarian aid, \u2064others \u200dbelieve that supporting an organization with alleged \u2063links to terrorism goes against\u2062 the principles of accountability and\u200c counterterrorism.<\/p>\n<p>As this debate unfolds, it is crucial for \u2063policymakers\u2063 to\u2064 carefully evaluate the evidence and consider \u200bthe long-term \u2062implications of their financial decisions. Striking a balance between providing aid to those\u2063 in need and \u2064safeguarding against the\u2064 misuse \u200cof funds is essential to \u200densure\u200d the effectiveness \u200band credibility of international humanitarian efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) voiced her anger alongside House Democrats in Washington, DC. 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