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As world leaders gather in Turtle Bay this week for the United Nations' annual High-Level Week, if there was ever an opportunity for the world's diplomatic powers to collectively resolve some of the world's most pressing geopolitical quagmires, it's now.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has rightly noted that this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to address global challenges and “reform outdated international institutions.” One of the outdated institutions we must discuss is UNRWA in Gaza.
Israel's UN ambassador slams UNRWA, claiming it has been hijacked by terrorists in Gaza
When it comes to Israel, the UN is more interested in encouraging terrorism and demonizing the Jewish state than in easing tensions on Israel's northern and southern borders, because it has risen up to defend its people in a war on seven fronts engineered by the Islamic Republic of Iran, a Shiite supremacist empire bent on achieving regional dominance, not diplomacy.
Danny Danon, Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, speaks at a UN Security Council meeting at UN Headquarters in New York on May 15, 2018. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
Tehran's proxies – Hezbollah in the north, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis in Yemen, Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria, and terrorist groups in Judea and Samaria – are Tehran's attack dogs unleashed to sow death and chaos across the Middle East.
The Palestinian resolution approved by the UN General Assembly last week, calling for Israel to end its “illegal presence in Palestinian territory” and calling for sanctions and an arms embargo against Israel, shows why the UN has little hope of making progress towards regional peace. The resolution is nothing less than diplomatic terrorism, designed to sabotage real peace efforts by distracting from condemning Hamas for instigating the 11-month war.
Rather than focusing on accusing Hamas of perpetrating the greatest genocide of Jews since the Holocaust, the UN circus once again stuck to its now predictable, virulently anti-Israel script.
Peace will be elusive unless the UN is willing to accept the ominous reality that one of its agencies, UNRWA in Gaza, has been overrun by Hamas terrorists. For this reason, and for the sake of peace for the people of Israel and the Gaza Strip, UNRWA must be dissolved.
UNRWA’s professed mission is to promote human development in Palestine by achieving five strategic outcomes centred on protecting the rights of refugees under international law, safeguarding the health of refugees, providing education for school-age children, providing adequate opportunities for earning a livelihood, and providing basic food and shelter for the people of Gaza.
Peace will remain elusive until the UN is willing to accept the ominous reality that one of its agencies, UNRWA in the Gaza Strip, has been taken over by Hamas terrorists.
However, since its establishment in 1949, UNRWA has failed miserably in achieving these goals. It has failed to improve the lives of the people of Gaza and has failed to prevent the Hamas terrorist hijacking of the agency's operations in the Strip.
How can UNRWA protect the health of the people of Gaza and provide them with quality educational opportunities when schools are overrun by terrorists who are using them as command and control centres for Hamas rather than places of education?
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The evidence pointing to terrorist acts at UNRWA is overwhelming, but has not yet convinced the UN, which acknowledged on August 5 that nine UNRWA staff members were likely involved in the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 people, including over 30 Americans.
Earlier this month, more UNRWA staff on the ground were found to be disguised as Hamas operatives. Morally and professionally, UNRWA has failed the Palestinian people, Israel and the United Nations.
It is time to send new agencies to Gaza that focus on humanitarian work, rather than activism or even terrorism. The most recent polio eradication campaign, spearheaded by UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the Israel Defense Forces, vaccinated more than 600,000 Gazan children, demonstrating that progress is possible when Israel works with partners interested in humanitarian work.
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The war in Gaza will end when all remaining hostages are returned home, Hamas is removed, and UNRWA is dismantled.
The reconstruction of Gaza will take place without Hamas or UNRWA.
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