Critics Blast UN for Ignoring Longstanding Ties Between UNRWA and Hamas

Experts on the issue say UNRWA is sweeping the problem—and its staff links to Hamas—under the carpet.

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That the United Nations fired a dozen employees of its Palestine relief agency for involvement in Hamas’s gruesome Oct. 7, 2023, massacre seems underwhelming to some scholars and policy experts on the issue.

They said they see it as a long time coming as part of a far deeper problem the U.N. has refused to face—they used terms such as “damage control” and “sweeping it under the carpet” to describe what’s happening.