Israel confronts UNRWA collusion with Hamas while UN prioritizes narratives over Jewish lives and security.
The United Nations’ latest outcry against Israel reveals a familiar pattern: moral posturing paired with strategic blindness. After Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, passed legislation revoking diplomatic immunity for UNRWA and ending state-supplied utilities to its facilities, UN officials rushed to warn of humanitarian catastrophe—carefully sidestepping the agency’s documented record of collaboration with terrorism.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini condemned Israel’s move as “outrageous,” while UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi lamented the potential loss of services. Their warnings ignore the central issue: UNRWA has long ceased to be a neutral humanitarian body.
Israel has presented extensive evidence that UNRWA employees participated in the October 7 Hamas massacre. Former hostage Emily Damari confirmed she was held inside an UNRWA facility. In April 2025, USAID disclosed that the UN obstructed a US investigation into UNRWA-Hamas links in Gaza. These are not allegations; they are patterns.
Yet the UN’s response was to appoint a review panel led by Catherine Colonna, which downplayed systemic terror infiltration while demanding Israel continue cooperation. This institutional reflex—protect the agency, discredit the evidence—has become standard.
Israel’s legislation is therefore not punitive; it is corrective. No sovereign state is obligated to grant diplomatic immunity or utilities to an organization implicated in aiding Hamas. Accountability is not a humanitarian violation; it is a prerequisite for genuine aid.
The hypocrisy deepened when the International Court of Justice ruled Israel must facilitate aid via UN agencies including UNRWA—despite the agency’s compromised neutrality. Israel and the United States rightly criticized the ruling for elevating bureaucracy over security realities.
UN officials insist UNRWA is “indispensable.” Israel’s position is clearer: humanitarian assistance must be delivered by clean, accountable mechanisms—not by institutions that radicalize classrooms, shelter terrorists, and endanger civilians.
True peace requires dismantling terror-enabling structures, not preserving them under the UN flag.
