Is Israel attempting to affiliate Hamas and UNRWA to mobilise anti-Palestinian sentiment within the US?
About 20 nations have introduced suspension of funding to UNRWA, the company that has been offering companies to Palestinian refugees since 1950.
The official cause for the suspension was Israel’s accusation {that a} dozen UNRWA staff in Gaza had participated within the October 7 Hamas assaults.
To grasp the potential penalties of undermining UNRWA – particularly amid a humanitarian disaster – host Steve Clemons speaks with Leila Hilal, a former adviser to the UNRWA commissioner-general, and Anne Irfan, lecturer at College School London and writer of Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the Worldwide Refugee System.