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| | The U.S. State Department allocated more than $220 million for UNRWA in June despite its schools’ curriculum glorifying violence and terrorism, as well as an agreement conditioning funding on the prevention of teaching hate and antisemitism.</small></blockquote></ref> | | The U.S. State Department allocated more than $220 million for UNRWA in June despite its schools’ curriculum glorifying violence and terrorism, as well as an agreement conditioning funding on the prevention of teaching hate and antisemitism.</small></blockquote></ref> |
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| − | Decried in Nov 2023:<ref>David Isaac, [https://www.jns.org/israel-un-agencies-complicit-in-hamas-war-crimes/ Israel: UN agencies ‘complicit’ in Hamas war crimes], ''JNS'', Nov 16, 2023. <blockquote><small>"Now that we have caught you in the act, can you please find the strength to condemn Hamas?" says a spokesperson for Israel's Prime Minister's Office.</small></blockquote></ref>
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| | Exposed in Nov 2023, after testimony on UNRWA teacher holding a hostage for 50 days in harsh conditions, UNRWA tried to censor a journalist<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/u-n-agency-for-palestinians-asks-israeli-journalist-to-remove-post-about-its-alleged-link-to-a-hostage-taker U.N. Agency for Palestinians Asks Israeli Journalist to Remove Post about Its Alleged Link to a Hostage-Taker]. Jimmy Quinn, ''NRO'', December 1, 2023</ref> and deny it. But was fact checked.<ref>Staff, [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-776284 UNRWA fact-checked after calling report about hostage 'unsubstantiated']. | | Exposed in Nov 2023, after testimony on UNRWA teacher holding a hostage for 50 days in harsh conditions, UNRWA tried to censor a journalist<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/u-n-agency-for-palestinians-asks-israeli-journalist-to-remove-post-about-its-alleged-link-to-a-hostage-taker U.N. Agency for Palestinians Asks Israeli Journalist to Remove Post about Its Alleged Link to a Hostage-Taker]. Jimmy Quinn, ''NRO'', December 1, 2023</ref> and deny it. But was fact checked.<ref>Staff, [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-776284 UNRWA fact-checked after calling report about hostage 'unsubstantiated']. |
| | UNRWA claimed that a report that a hostage was held by a teacher in the agency's schools was "harmful and presumably gratuitous." | | UNRWA claimed that a report that a hostage was held by a teacher in the agency's schools was "harmful and presumably gratuitous." |
| − | By ''Jerusalem Post'', 12/3/2023</ref> Journalist: "One of them testified he was held hostage and starved by an @UNRWA teacher. That’s not an ‘allegation’. That’s a survivor testimony, and more testimonies are coming."<ref name=jns-2dec23/> | + | By ''Jerusalem Post'', 12/3/2023</ref> Journalist: |
| | + | "One of them testified he was held hostage and starved by an @UNRWA teacher. That’s not an ‘allegation’. That’s a survivor testimony, and more testimonies are coming."<ref name=jns-2dec23/> |
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| | ===Miloon Kothari - UNHRC=== | | ===Miloon Kothari - UNHRC=== |