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"I'm from Chicago, and I know corruption when I find it!" This is how Congressman Mark Steven Kirk (R-Ill.) initiated his dissection of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) during a Capital Hill seminar...

There are over 21,000,000 refugees in the world: Some 17,000,000 in various places, for whom UNHCR (UN High Commission for Refugees) has responsibility, and some 4 million Palestinian Arab refugees, for whom UNRWA (UN...

In a recent interview with The Jordan Times, UNRWA Commissioner-General Peter Hansen said, "I challenge to produce anything I've said that's been one-sided or unbalanced." As the only nongovernmental organization exclusively mandated to...

Source: Al-Bayan (UAE), 31st July 2002. http://www.albayan.co.ae/albayan/alarbea/2002/issue143/axis/1.htm...UNRWA schools are greenhouses for suicide bombers. UNRWA director of activities in Jordan argued in that meeting of UNRWAs' teachers that the majority of those who commit...

Source: Hamas website, www.palestine-info.info/arabic/palestoday/dailynews/2001/july01/7-7/details.htm On July 6th 2001 the Hamas movement convened a conference in a school in the UNRWA Jabalya refugee camp (in Gaza) with the participation of the Palestinian Legislative Council, the school's...

Source: Al-Watan (Kuwait) 11 June, 2003 www.al-watan.com/data/20030611/index.asp?content=outstate2 Hamas followers won a remarkable victory in the elections to the clerks union of UNRWA in the Gaza strip gaining 23 out of the 27 seats. 6780 from...

Funding Terrrorism in Northern Israel? The Attack In the August 11 edition of the Israeli paper Ha'aretz, the leading military analyst Zev Schiff noted that the "Hezbollah uses anti-aircraft aimed to explode over Israeli communities and...

WILTON, CONN. - The fire of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is frying some strange fish on Capitol Hill. On the hook are the United Nations, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and the UN Relief and...

Critics accuse UNRWA of perpetuating the Palestinian Arab refugee problem and abetting terror. Israeli officials say everyone would be much worse off without it. Has the 50-year-old mission gone right or wrong? The vanished buildings...

BEACH CAMP, Gaza Strip - The tall, whitewashed wall that surrounds the food distribution center of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency here is decorated with murals of exploding Israeli boats and burning...