Global Aid Giant UNRWA Rocked by Claims of Terror Infiltration

• Large-scale alleged ties to terrorism

  • Claims that over 1,500 UNRWA staff members are suspected of links to terrorist organizations (specifically Hamas).
  • Suggests some employees participated in the October 7 attacks.

• U.S. investigation

  • States that the USAID Inspector General is conducting an expanding probe.
  • Accuses UNRWA and other UN agencies of refusing to cooperate with the investigation.

• Policy consequences being considered

  • Proposes that the U.S. government could:
    • Designate UNRWA as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)
    • Remove diplomatic immunity, exposing it to lawsuits (especially from victims of attacks)
    • Cut funding and eliminate it from the UN budget

• Political momentum

  • Mentions support from Republican lawmakers (e.g., Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz) for dismantling UNRWA.
  • Attributes stronger action to the Trump administration.

• Use of U.S. taxpayer money

  • Repeatedly emphasizes that American tax dollars fund UNRWA, framing this as indirectly supporting terrorism.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I've always felt that the UN has tremendous potential.
It's not living up to that potential right now. It
really is, and hasn't for a long time. It has.
They are great hopes for it, but it's not being
well run, to be honest, and they're not doing the job.
A lot of these conflicts that we're working on should
be settled, or at least we should have some help

(00:22):
in settling them. We never seem to get help. That
should be the primary purpose of the UN in nine nations.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
Ben ferguson.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Good Monday morning, nice to have you with us on
the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got a massive
breaking news story for you. Your tax dollars are apparently going
to terrorists in UNRUP who are directly tied to Hamas
and even involved in the October seventh attax. So how
do we stop having our tax hours go to UNRUP

(00:52):
and can the present move to declare their terrorist organization.
That's exactly what may happen, and we have all the
detail than else for you. But before we get to that,
I want to take a moment and ask you to
help the people in Israel with my friends at the
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(01:13):
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(01:35):
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(02:38):
Update and it starts right now.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Story number one.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
There is a US probe of the embattled UN Gaza
Relief Agency. It has now expanded to more than one thousand,
five hundred staffers that have suspected ties directly to terrorist
organizations like a moss. It is known as UNRA and
it could soon be labeled a foreign terrorist organization. But

(03:03):
your tax dollurs have actually been going there. There is
momentum now growing for un OR to lose its diplomatic
community as well, which would expose it to lawsuits from
October seven survivors and victims' families. Now the media is
not covering this. Thank goodness to Free beacon Is, and
that's why we're going to use this show, and I

(03:25):
hope you will take this show and share it everywhere
you can on social media because what I'm about to
tell you should enrage all of you. Now. The federal
investigation is into the staff at the United Nations Relief
and Work Agency. It is the UN Gods, a relief
organization that's been closely linked now directly to Hamas. They
say it will soon encompass more than one thousand, five

(03:47):
hundred unrelinked individuals suspected of direct terror ties. Now, this
is an unprecedented dragnet reported here for the first time
by the for Washing Free Beacon. Where all the other
media outlets and why are they not covering this is
the question you should be asking, because all they did
was ask basic questions and they expose now what has
been described as a humanitarian aid group, that's not what

(04:11):
they were at all, brimming with hamas operative, so actual
terrorists within UNRUP. And then it's generating momentum because of
this report in Congress and the Trump administration for not
only harsher sanctions on the umbattled a group, but then
maybe even designating them a terrorists organization. Quote. The punitive
measures up for consideration include stripping UNRA of its diplomatic

(04:34):
community under US law, which would open it up to
legal action from terror victims, and fully designate the eight
organizations a foreign terrorist organization because they're not doing eight
at all. They're filled with terrorists. They are literally a
terrorist organization. Now that's coming according with not one, not two,
but three Trump administration officials and other sources tracking the
matter in Congress. Now again, why is this the first

(04:56):
that you and I are hearing about? This is the
question we should all be asking now. These discussions have
apparently accelerated since The Free Beacon reported in April that
UNDER and other un agencies are stonewalling a federal probe
into their ties directly to HAMAS. The US Agency for
International Development Inspector General's Office, a law enforcement agency separate

(05:19):
from the largely defunct USAID, has spent months independently unearthing
evidence that countless UNRA employees actually participated. Listen carefully to
this in the Hamas October seventh tear attacks. So these
UNRA employees were the terrorists in the October seventh tear attack.

(05:41):
They say the probe will soon expand to more than
one hundred and one thousand, five hundred suspected militants with
direct UNRUN ties. Now, UNRA an official organ of the
notoriously anti Israel United Nations. Your tax dollars goes there,
Your tax dollars goes to. UNRA is the only a
group with a large operation quote unquote in Gaza. Well,

(06:02):
apparently it's just funneling money to terrorists. With as many
as thirteen thousand, they say, godzen employees and a large
distribution network. Man that seems to work perfect for terrorist organization. Now,
you and officials have insisted, of course, and lied for years,
that's the only viable option for getting aid relief to
the Gazens who are in need. Israel and its supporters

(06:24):
of long claim that UNRA is fully infiltrated by Hamas.
Now we see the evidence of that and has cemented
the terror group's control also over a distribution and much
of that aid is actually sold off and they make
money off of it, which is even more shocking. Now
Usaid Inspector General is currently working with a state department
in the latter's effort to build a blacklist that will
ensure terror linked under employees cannot circulate to other aid

(06:49):
organizations within the United Nations systems. Because again, this is
the this is the United Nations. It's been infiltrated by
terrorists organizations, and your dollars are going to them. The
Inspector General has already confirmed that one under school principle,
So it's a school principle participated in the October seventh

(07:09):
attacks as a member of Hamas's East Battalion and has
flagged multiple others for the State Department as well. Quote
the USAID Inspector General's cases coming in droves are corroborating
the obvious parent subsidy relationship between UNRA and Hamas and Gaza.
A senior State Department official familiar with the investigation told

(07:31):
the Free Beacon, saying if UNRA was not a un organization,
it would be undeniably facing terrorist sanctions based on what
USAID ig has uncovered now. This ongoing Usaid Inspector General investigation,
sources said, would logically not only lead to labeling UNRE
as a foreign terrorist group, but they say that the

(07:51):
probe quote confirms that if it walks like a foreign
terrorist organization, and it talks like a foreign terrorist organization
and employees foreign teens, terrist organization personnel, then a case
actually exists that it should be a foreign terrorist organization.
A second US official also confirming that the Trump administration

(08:11):
has to consider a whole of world approach to UNRA
that includes further executive action and policies that would strip
the AID group's diplomatic immunity, says, if UNRA could be
sued in the American courts, the agency could very well
collapse under the strain of defending itself from an October
seventh related complaint alone, because there's a torrent of them.

(08:35):
If this many people were involved in that terrorist attack quote,
there's a lot here we can do, said the official,
a lot we could do. There has to be consequences
for UNRA for its conduct and the run up and
the role in October seventh and continuing all the way
to today with its ongoing refusal to adhere to legitimate
and pressing American inquiries, and the Trump administration stripped virtually

(08:58):
all remaining US funding in February, citing its established links
to HAMAS. The agency, however, still enjoys that diplomatic community,
and they can access some funds from the larger un
budget which your tax dollars go to, and they facilitate
hamas's continue control over a distribution in Gaza, and without immunities,
the source explained, there is a potential exposure for a

(09:20):
foreign terist organization designation and then the massive lawsuits which
would then be for the courts to adjudicate now. Additionally,
they say the unrefunding remains a line item in the
UN budget and there's still American tax payer dollers going
towards that, and that's unacceptable. A third US official confirmed
the appetite for such action has been building since it

(09:43):
became abundantly clear that under an other UN organizations, because
again is not the only one, We're not cooperating with
the USAID Inspector General's probe wine because they don't want
you to know that they're actually terrorists and that your
tax dollars are going to fund a terrorist organization and
even tears attacks like October seventh.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Now.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
The USAID Inspector General also sent a letter to six
separate UN agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Yeah you heard me say, the Red Cross in December,
asking them to name all employees who worked on US
government funded awards and provide their contact information and data
and place of birth. The office also asked the agencies

(10:27):
to detail their interactions with Hamas, among other requests. None,
I'm gonna say it again, none of the responding UN
recipients provided the request of information pertaining to their personnel.
The Inspector General exposing that last month quote. Given its
history with hamas, NRA does not have the luxury of

(10:49):
not cooperating with an investigation and thinking there might be
not be consequences, said the US official. We will respond
accordingly now. Elements of all these discussions have also spilled
into public view in the recent days, as lawmakers call
for UNRA to be fully dismantled. Senator Tom Cotton, a
Republican from Arkansas, now has twenty four of his colleagues

(11:12):
citing the Usaid Inspector General's ongoing work, and they are
now urging the Trump administration to take decisive action to
fully dismantled under and eliminate it from the UN budget.
Mike Lawler, a Republican from New York, and ninety other
lawmakers in the House issued a similar call. On Friday.
Cotton told The Free Beacon that unre hiss terrorist ties
are clear, and the UN's attempt to hide those ties

(11:34):
from the US government is deeply concerning. It's a long
past time to completely dismantle the organization. Senator Ted Cruz
and Bill Haggerty, Republican from Tennessee, very influential members and
Senate Formulations Committee, both told the Free beacon that it's
time to move beyond merely freezing unresfunding, particularly as the
USAID Inspector General continues to unearth evidence of Hamas' complicity.

(11:59):
Either they come clear or I expect growing momentum for
designating them for the support they give to terrorists, Crew said.
Haggarty called it appalling that other UN agencies today are
still stonewalling the Trump administration's ongoing investigations, adding that if
UN agencies refuse to show basic transparency and then accountability,

(12:19):
then the Executive branch and Congress must respond. Richard Goldberg,
who served in both Trump administrations, currently a senior advisor
with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tanks, that
authorities already exist to impose terrorism sanctions on UNDRA if
the President so chooses. The Justice Department's position right now
is that UNDRA does not enjoy privilege or immunity. Goldberg

(12:42):
said that means nothing stops the Treasury Department from imposing
terrorism sanctions on UNRA to force its closure. Some people
might be afraid of breaking eggs at the UN while
the Gods Aboard of Peace is still young, but I
guarantee under its survival will be the death of the
or to piece the second Donald Trump leaves office. By

(13:03):
the way, I couldn't agree more. Let me say a
couple of things here in closing. One, God blessed the
Washington Free Beacon for doing this work, because it's incredible
what they just expose. Number two, this is why I
do this show, to give you this type of information.
And then I hope what you will do is take
this exact information and share a podcast anywhere you can

(13:24):
on social media. You can also text a link to
the podcast anybody in your phone contact list so that
they can hear what I just gave you. There needs
to be insane amounts of pressure from US as Americans
on Congress right now, telling Congress right now, hey guys,
we're not going to send you any more money if

(13:45):
you're gonna give it to terrorists organizations. By the way,
that's not crazy, that's common sense. Common sense says exactly that.
Common sense says, you don't send money to terrorists. Okay,
I'm gonna say that one more time. You don't send
money American tax dollars to terrorists. That's what you don't do.

(14:07):
And I think all of this should be angry. We
should be frustrated. We should be demanding accountability in a
way that we have not seen so far.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
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