The United Nations Relief and Works Agency is as guilty of perpetuating the Palestinian refugee crisis as just about anyone else.

The latest report from UN Watch is that UNRWA employees are alleging that other UNRWA staff are stealing and reselling the aid that the organization is supposed to be delivering to civilians in Gaza. It is a big accusation, and one that will certainly never get the scrutiny it deserves from U.S. or U.N. officials, but this is the same organization that admitted in 2004 that Hamas terrorists were probably on its payroll and concluded that there were no concerns to be had there. Thieves reselling aid for profit would be just another drop in the ocean.

This would fit exactly with UNRWA’s focus on keeping the crisis going. The agency acknowledged back in 1951 that the goal should be for it to shut itself down, as the goal of any refugee crisis is to end the crisis. But UNRWA has perpetuated it, doing so using a definition of refugees that the U.N. does not apply to any other country or region in the world.

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It would also be in keeping with UNRWA’s tradition of sketchy employment decisions. The aforementioned lack of concern in 2004 over the probability that the agency was employing terrorists came to a head when it was revealed that several UNRWA employees actually took part in the Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli civilians led by Hamas. These aren’t accusations that can just be dismissed as a pack of lone wolves, either, as UNRWA’s institutional rot led to it harboring a Hamas military compound of which the agency expects the world to believe it somehow had no knowledge.

Through all of this, UNRWA’s attitude has been indignance and entitlement. There has been no introspection over employing terrorists for decades, Hamas terrorists picking off aid before it reaches civilians, UNRWA schools in Gaza promoting antisemitism, or UNRWA being used as yet another shield with which Hamas protects itself. There won’t be any serious introspection or investigation here, either, because UNRWA only cares about raking in money from the gullible countries that keep giving away taxpayer dollars to an agency that has a vested interest in keeping a refugee crisis going.