As lawmakers work to finalize the text of the next round of government spending bills, a dispute over funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency is threatening to derail negotiations.
The United States and more than a dozen other countries suspended funding for the main U.N. agency for Palestinians after Israel accused some of the agency’s employees in Gaza of participating in the Oct. 7 attack in which Hamas murdered some 1,200 people in Israel and kidnapped 253.
The agency has faced scrutiny in the aftermath of the attack after a U.N. Watch report found that staffers “immediately celebrated and justified” the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks that ignited the current war. There have also been broader concerns about the curriculum being taught in UNRWA-run schools as it relates
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