H.Con.Res.29 - Expressing the sense of Congress that the United Nations should take immediate steps to improve the transparency and accountability of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in the Near East to ensure that it is not providing funding, employment, or other support to terrorists.

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Official: Expressing the sense of Congress that the United Nations should take immediate steps to improve the transparency and accountability of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in the Near East to ensure that it is not providing funding, employment, or other support to terrorists. as introduced.

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Coy 02/28/2009 1:57pm

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As reported by International Fellowship of Christians and Jews & I have no reason to doubt it’s acccuracy.

While its stated purpose is humanitarian, UNRWA has evolved into an organization that many say perpetuates, rather than eases, the plight of Palestinian refugees and the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict in general. For instance, UNRWA often plays an indirect role in supporting Hamas and other terrorist organizations. Hamas members have been found on the agency’s payroll, a fact that did not seem to bother UNRWA Commissioner-General in 2004 Peter Hansen, when he told a reporter, “I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll and I don’t see that as a crime.” More recently, the agency revealed that it has no screening system in place to exclude members of terrorist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad from working in its schools.