Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has urged the Israeli government to rescind it’s ban on aid agency UNRWA, saying humanitarian work must continue.
Congress has cut off aid to UNRWA until March 2025. Experts told it UNRWA has for years failed to clean up its act or investigate staffers’ links to Hamas.
Asaf Romirowsky is director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and co-author of ‘Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief.’