THE CASE AGAINST UNRWA

How UN schools use our tax money to teach Palestinian children to hate and kill Jews

New Interactive Platform

The UNRWA Terror Network

As UNRWA mounts a diplomatic offensive to reestablish itself in Gaza after the ICJ dismissal of terror-link accusations, UN Watch unveils the UNRWA Terror Network, an interactive investigative platform exposing the elaborate network of individuals who use UNRWA’s “right of return” mandate to perpetuate violence against Israel.

The UNRWA Terror Network presents verifiable cases of 490 UNRWA staff who are members of terrorist groups, educators who glorify mass murder, terror leaders influencing UNRWA decisions, and the top UNRWA officials collaborating with them. The database also traces institutional links between UNRWA offices, Hamas-controlled unions, and extremist-aligned NGOs operating under the guise of humanitarianism.

The end result is clear: corruption within UNRWA is systemic, not accidental. Dive into the network yourself to explore how deep UNRWA’s corruption runs.

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Is UNRWA really a "lifesaving" organization? The truth is the opposite.

Mainstream media and influential figures like Justin Trudeau, Jordan’s Queen Rania, Owen Jones, Catherine Colonna and many others mindlessly parrot UNRWA’s false “lifesaving” mantra. UN Watch exposes that the truth is the opposite. UNRWA’s actual purpose is to perpetuate hatred, war and terrorism.

Through consistent monitoring and over a decade of research, UN Watch has developed a clear case setting the record straight – UNRWA is not a partner for peace in the region.

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Defund UNRWA

Enough is enough. UNRWA must be dissolved and replaced.

Don’t let your government continue spending your money on the radicalization of Gaza. Humanitarian aid and UNRWA’s toxic mandate must be immediately decoupled. Aid should flow through other agencies which already operate in Gaza, and which are experts at this task everywhere else in the world, such as the WHO, the World Food Programme, or UNICEF.

It’s time to stop the perverse logic of an agency that perpetuates war. It’s time to defund UNRWA.

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International Summit for a Future Beyond UNRWA

The international summit addressed the humanitarian situation in Gaza and planned for a future beyond UNRWA. The goal was to develop a program of action for the international community to fully ensure the humanitarian and other needs of Gazans, while preparing to transition away from a failed agency.

The summit took place as a side event to the 2024 opening of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which gathered the UN’s highest officials, including secretary-general Antonio Guterres, and foreign ministers from around the world.

Exposed UNRWA Employees and Counting

Fathi Sharif, Head of UNRWA Teachers’ Union & Hamas Terror Chief in Lebanon

Abdallah Mehjaz, Amplifies Hamas Call to Gazans to Remain as Human Shields

Ibrahim Sami El Sultan aka “Ibrahim Sultan,” Celebrates Hamas October 7th Atrocities

Elham Mansour, UNRWA Teacher in Lebanon, Incites Killing Israelis and Jews

UN Watch's monitoring of UNRWA

NEW: Refuting UNRWA Facts Versus Claims

December 1, 2025

Impact: UN Watch in German Parliament and Media to Expose UNRWA Terror Ties

November 6, 2025

At the Senate in Rome: Hillel Neuer Exposes UNRWA’s Terror Ties

November 6, 2025

New Database Maps Hamas Infiltration of UNRWA, Hundreds Exposed

November 4, 2025

UN Watch Reacts to ICJ Ruling on UNRWA

October 22, 2025

EXPLAINER: UNRWA Exists to Promote the “Right of Return”

September 29, 2025

Report: UN Watch Exposes Hamas Takeover of UNRWA Schools in Gaza and Lebanon

September 17, 2025

Fox News Podcast Interview: Hillel Neuer on What To Expect at the U.N. General Assembly

September 11, 2025

Yonatan Samerano, Kidnapped by UNRWA Social Worker on October 7, Returned Home and Laid to Rest

June 25, 2025

UNRWA Refuses To Allow Beneficiary To Remove Himself From Its Rosters

June 24, 2025

UN Watch Welcomes Historic U.S. Justice Department Reversal Stripping UNRWA of Immunity

April 25, 2025

UNRWA’s former union chief calls on Muslims worldwide to “rise up” against Israel

March 19, 2025

UNRWA Kidnapped Her Son Into Gaza: Explosive Testimony at UNHRC

March 9, 2025

Fact-Checking UNRWA’s “Claims Versus Facts”

February 28, 2025

Swiss Parliament Committee Votes 7-6 to “Immediately Suspend Funding to UNRWA”

February 18, 2025

Hillel Neuer on i24 News: “In 48 hours, UNRWA activities will cease to exist in Israel”

January 29, 2025

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Italian Senate Hearing

UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer addressed the Italian Senate in September 2025 to reveal new evidence against UNRWA’s top educators. He revealed how Hamas leaders have openly controlled UNRWA’s education system for decades. Terror chiefs were employed as school principals, union heads, and senior educators — positions from which they shaped the curriculum, oversaw thousands of teachers, and turned classrooms into incubators of hate.

Rather than promoting peace and human rights, UNRWA handed generations of Palestinian children to extremists who glorify suicide bombers, recruit child soldiers, and call for Israel’s destruction. The billion-dollar UN agency knew about these affiliations and did nothing.

With picture evidence, Mr. Neuer walked senators through the gross and systematic violations of various leading UNRWA Union figures and exposed how they and their successors work on behalf of Hamas to indoctrinate children in violently invading Israel and perpetuating the cycle of violence.

Dutch Parliament Hearing

UNRWA is in gross breach of the neutrality commitments that it recently made to donors in connection with the April 2024 Colonna Report. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini has caved into the demands of a terrorist coalition in Lebanon to reinstate Hamas-linked school principal and union leader Fateh al-Sharif, following a two-month pressure campaign against UNRWA’s senior management in Lebanon.

The report presented to the Dutch parliament details Fateh al-Sharif’s links to Hamas and other terrorist groups, his celebration of October 7th, his incitement to violence, and his coordination of political activities on school grounds involving children.

Capitol Hill Hearing

UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer addressed U.S. Congress to ask it to take the lead in dissolving UNRWA. During his remarks, Mr. Neuer presented UN Watch’s new report, which details how UNRWA teachers in a 3,000-member UNRWA staff Telegram group cheered and celebrated Hamas’s October 7th massacre.

With credible evidence that at least 12 UNRWA employees participated in the October 7 attacks, 1,200 employees are linked to terrorist groups, and 6,000 have family members with ties to terrorist groups, it is immoral to continue funding the agency with taxpayer dollars.

The real core of the problem is the agency’s mission, which is to perpetuate the war of 1948 and send the message to Palestinians that their true home is in Israel, and where they live is merely a refugee camp. Plenty of other international agencies provide humanitarian aid to every other conflict zone on earth. The time to find alternatives to UNRWA is now.

UN Watch is censored at UN

When UN Watch confronts the UN with evidence of incitement to violence and antisemitism by UNRWA teachers, the UNHRC’s chair moves to stop Hillel Neuer from delivering his speech. For years UNRWA’s response to the allegations has been to silence, deny, and smear UN Watch.

The agency has not once contacted UN Watch for its evidence. They have never disclosed what disciplinary measures — if any have ever been taken against staff identified in UN Watch reports. They continually demonstrate that they are not interested in resolving the issue or making effective reforms.

UN Watch has been sounding the alarm for over 10 years

UN Watch has published over a dozen reports over many years exposing the systemic promotion of hatred and violence by UNRWA staff. Such practices constitute a gross breach of UNRWA employees’ neutrality obligations as enshrined in the UN Charter and in UNRWA’s Staff Rules and Regulations. UN Watch has documented over 180 UNRWA employees celebrating terrorism, glorifying nazism and publicly calling for the extermination of Jews.

Even more alarming, however, is the fact that UNRWA places the education of impressionable Palestinian youth in their hands. UNRWA perpetuates the crisis by allowing hate to be engraved into the minds of children and thereby raising the next generation of terrorists.

UN Watch Reports on UNRWA

LATEST REPORT

Schools in the Grip of Terror: UN Watch Report Exposes Hamas Capture of UNRWA Education System

UN Watch’s new report reveals how Hamas leaders have openly controlled UNRWA’s education system for decades. Terror chiefs were employed as school principals, union heads, and senior educators — positions from which they shaped the curriculum, oversaw thousands of teachers, and turned classrooms into incubators of hate.

Through its domination of UNRWA staff unions in Gaza and Lebanon, Hamas repeatedly blocked efforts to discipline teachers who incited terrorism, resisted attempts to remove antisemitic content from textbooks, and forced out international staff who dared to contradict their agenda.

Donor states funding UNRWA must reckon with this reality: their aid is sustaining a system captured by extremists, not one committed to humanitarian principles.

UNRWA’s Rigged “Independent” Review

On February 5, 2024, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment of an “Independent Review Group” with the stated purpose of assessing whether the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) “is doing everything within its power to ensure neutrality and to respond to allegations of serious breaches when they are made.”

A brief examination of all of the parties involved in the review group confirms that they are not unbiased, objective observers. Rather, the review has been rigged since the beginning.

The UNRWA-Terrorist Alliance

Through uncovered photographic evidence, UN Watch reveals how UNRWA, despite its claims to be a humanitarian agency, has forged an unholy alliance with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist organizations. This secret relationship allows the terrorist organizations to significantly influence the policies and practices of a UN agency with 30,000 employees, and a $1.5 billion annual budget that is funded primarily by Western states.

The report shows how UNRWA’s international officials, and its senior local managers, routinely meet with terrorist groups in Lebanon and Gaza, mutually praise each other for “cooperation,” and describe each other as “partners.”

The terrorist groups frequently make demands of UNRWA and influence its decisions. Moreover, when the terrorists oppose specific actions by UNRWA—such as the introduction of biometric IDs for beneficiaries of UNRWA financial assistance, an ethics code affirming LGBT rights, or suspension of employees for promoting terrorism—the terrorist groups are often able to foil implementation, including by issuing threats.

UNRWA's Terrorgram

UN Watch Uncovers Group Chat of 3000 UNRWA Teachers Showing Widespread Support for Hamas Terrorism

Notwithstanding the repeated denials by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and its insistence that it has zero tolerance for hatred and antisemitism, UN Watch continues to find abhorrent antisemitism and support for jihadi terrorism by UNRWA staff on social media. This report details how UNRWA teachers in a 3,000-member UNRWA staff Telegram group cheered and celebrated Hamas’s October 7th massacre while at the same time asking when their UNRWA salaries will be paid. The UNRWA staff in the group shared photos and video footage of those events and prayed for the terrorists’ success and for Israel’s destruction, in clear violation of UN rules.

This is the latest in a series of reports on UNRWA staff antisemitism and incitement to jihadi terrorism which our research proves is systemic and widespread. Since 2015, UN Watch has exposed over 150 UNRWA staff Facebook pages that contain antisemitism and incitement to jihadi terrorism in blatant violation of UN neutrality. UNRWA’s typical response to our research has been to disparage our human rights organization and downplay the problem as reflecting just a few bad apples. The UNRWA Telegram group featured in this report completely eviscerates UNRWA’s denials and exposes the extent of UNRWA’s failure to do the bare minimum to address its staff’s neutrality violations.

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