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Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has urged the Israeli government to rescind it’s ban on aid agency UNRWA, saying humanitarian work must continue.
Congress has cut off aid to UNRWA until March 2025. Experts told it UNRWA has for years failed to clean up its act or investigate staffers’ links to Hamas.
Asaf Romirowsky is director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and co-author of ‘Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief.’
Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Birmingham is calling on Senator Don Farrell to set the record straight.
The probe is in response to reports that 12 UNRWA staff members participated in the Hamas-led terror attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
