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Short answer
UNRWA isn’t a humanitarian agency, it’s a political weapon. Unlike every other refugee agency in the world, UNRWA gives Palestinians hereditary refugee status forever — even when they have passports, citizenship in other countries, or millions in the bank — turning “refugee” from a crisis into a political tool. This isn’t an accident. It’s designed to undermine Israel’s legitimacy by inflating the refugee count and preserving the “right of return” narrative that would erase Israel demographically.
UNRWA’s schools have been infiltrated by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, with teachers indoctrinating children for jihad, staff involved in the October 7 massacre, and even Hamas commanders openly on UNRWA’s payroll. Its so-called “neutrality” is a façade — the agency has long served as a shield and platform for anti-Israel extremism.
European lawmakers, Swiss officials, and terror victims alike have called for the agency’s dismantling, warning that donor countries are funding terrorism by proxy. UNRWA doesn’t solve the conflict — it sustains it, fuels it, and weaponizes it. It’s time to hold it accountable.
Long answer
A Palestinian walks into a UNRWA office and asks to be removed from its refugee list. UNRWA says no.
It sounds like a bad joke — except the punchline has lasted 75 years and costs over a billion dollars a year.After 1948, instead of placing Palestinians under the UN’s normal refugee agency (UNHCR), the Arab League insisted on creating a separate agency — UNRWA — with far looser criteria. This allowed “refugee” status to be passed down hereditarily, regardless of actual displacement, citizenship, wealth, or residence. That’s why even U.S.-born millionaires like Bella Hadid — or Arafat’s own family, enriched by stolen Palestinian aid — are still counted as “refugees.” Meanwhile, the truly stateless — like 200,000 “ex-Gazans” in Jordan and 450,000 Palestinians in Lebanon — remain trapped without basic rights.
Everywhere else in the world, refugee status ends when people rebuild their lives. Under UNRWA, it becomes permanent and political — designed to preserve the conflict, not resolve it. The agency inflates refugee numbers to sustain the “right of return” narrative that would erase Israel demographically. It’s not a humanitarian agency; it’s a political weapon.
UNRWA’s schools and staff have been repeatedly tied to terrorism and indoctrination. In January 2024, Israel exposed at least 12 UNRWA employees who took part in the October 7 Hamas massacre — including kidnappers and logistics operatives. UN officials confirmed the evidence was credible enough to fire them immediately. Watchdogs like UN Watch have shown that Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives hold positions as UNRWA teachers, principals, and union leaders — some of whom openly praise terrorism and preach jihad to students.
Even worse, UNRWA does not allow Palestinians to opt out. Refugee status is not voluntary — it’s imposed. Palestinians who try to remove themselves from the registry are denied, because fewer “refugees” would threaten the agency’s funding and political leverage.
In short, UNRWA manufactures refugees, not solutions. It entrenches the conflict, sustains extremism by proxy, and undermines peace efforts at every level. If the world truly wants a resolution, UNRWA must be dismantled and replaced with a model that promotes real resettlement, dignity, and peace — not endless dependency and hate.
