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UN Watch was quoted in media outlets around the world in the first half of January on numerous topics including our bombshell investigative report exposing the UNRWA terror ties. Below is a selection. For more, click here.

The Baltimore Sun, “Report lays out UNRWA’s links to terror groups”

By Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun | January 9, 2025

Officials from the UNRWA met "routinely" with Lebanese and Gazan terror groups, "mutually praise each other for 'cooperation' and describe each other as 'partners.'" That's according to the December 2024 report "The Unholy Alliance: UNRWA, Hamas and Islamic Jihad" from UN Watch, based in Geneva.

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El Espectador, "Colombia in the Human Rights Council"

By Marcos Peckel | January 8, 2025

A light in the darkness of the Human Rights Council is provided by the participation in the sessions of some NGOs that expose the states whose human rights violations are shamelessly ignored. One of these, UN Watch, has put the regimes of Venezuela, Iran, China, Pakistan and others against the wall. (Translated from Spanish)

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New York Post, “UNRWA 'knowingly' let Hamas infiltrate and 'indoctrinate' children to 'pursue a path of terrorism': UN Watch report”

January 8, 2025

"UNRWA allowed Hamas leader Fathi al-Sharif to remain as principal of a major UNRWA school, and as the head of the UNRWA Teachers Union."

That’s according to the December 2024 report "The Unholy Alliance: UNRWA, Hamas and Islamic Jihad" from UN Watch, based in Geneva.

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New York Sun, "UN Watchdog, in New Report, Exposes Aid Agency’s ‘Unholy Alliance’ With Hamas, Islamic Jihad"

By Novi Zhukovsky | January 8, 2025

A UN watchdog group, UN Watch, is exposing the agency’s "unholy alliance" with terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad in a new report. 

The chummy relationships between UNRWA officials and terrorist leaders are brought to life via a series of 68 newly uncovered images included in the dossier.

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“UNRWA is not the firefighter. UNRWA is the arsonist”

"We're told that UNRWA is the firefighter, and that UNRWA is how the UN teaches Palestinians about UN values of peace, tolerance of human rights. It’s complete nonsense. The truth is the opposite. We've got to put an end to it. UNRWA is not the firefighter. UNRWA is the arsonist."
— Hillel Neuer on Fox News Radio

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O Antagonista (Brazil), "UN chief in Gaza met with terrorists"

January 10, 2025

An investigation conducted by the NGO UN Watch points out that employees of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) regularly met with terrorist leaders of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad who intervened in the operations of the organization, which receives 1.5 billion dollars from the United Nations to maintain its activities in Palestinian territory. [Translated from Portuguese]

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“UNRWA is perpetuating war. It must be dismantled” — Hillel Neuer on The Daily Wire

"All UNRWA does is perpetuate the ideas of resentment, war, and terrorism among Palestinians. They perpetuate dependency. It's time to get rid of it. Palestinians will manage themselves and not have the UN funding an agency that is sworn to the destruction of Israel."

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Israel's Channel 12 Evening News: Yonit Levy Features UN Watch Report

The television segment discussed UN Watch's new 51-page dossier on UNRWA leadership's ties to terror chiefs.

Watch Here (Hebrew)

N12 News (Israel), "A serious report reveals: UNRWA officials meet regularly with the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad"

By Keren Betzalel | January 7, 2025

In a comprehensive and troubling report published this week by the organization UN Watch, headed by Hillel Neuer, the intricate network of connections between the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and terrorist organizations in Gaza and Lebanon is revealed for the first time. [Translated from Hebrew]

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Hillel Neuer interviewed on Israel's Kan 11 News

"UNRWA senior officials meet regularly with the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad."

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YNet News (Israel), "Regular meetings and ‘advice’ on bypassing decisions: The secret connections between UNRWA and terrorist organizations"

By Itamar Eichner | January 7, 2025

The organization UN Watch, which monitors the activities of the United Nations, published a report Tuesday revealing how UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has forged alliances with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other organizations.

The report further indicates that regional managers in the agency routinely met with local terrorist leaders for "collaboration and coordination." [Translated from Hebrew]

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UN Watch's latest report highlighted on Israel's Channel 13 News

"The UN Watch organization revealed the extensive connections between Hamas and UNRWA."

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Maariv (Israel), "New Report: The Secret Connection Between UNRWA, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad"

January 7, 2025

Member of Knesset Yulia Malinovsky, who initiated the legislation to sever ties with UNRWA, stated: "The UN Watch report on UNRWA's close cooperation with Hamas and Islamic Jihad proves once again that the UN agency for terrorist affairs is, in effect, a terrorist organization. This report is definitive proof of the national interest in cutting all possible ties with this terror arm and expelling them from both Judea and Samaria and Gaza." [Translated from Hebrew]

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