More UN dhimmitude. From the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Robert Wikström:
UNRWA is the largest United Nations operation in the Middle East. Established in 1950 and with headquarters in the West Bank and Gaza, it deals exclusively with a fraction of the world’s 135 million refugees. The remainder fall under the jurisdiction of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees Office.
The organization’s Web site describes it as a “relief and human development agency, providing education, healthcare, social services and emergency aid” to Palestinians. It claims further that “the Agency is scrupulous about protecting its installations against misuse by any person or group.”
UNRWA relies on contributions from around the world and acknowledges that 93% of its funds come from donations made by governments and the EU, while 5% originates from other UN bodies.
The remaining 2% is somewhat buried on the Web site, possibly because UNRWA is receiving millions of dollars from organizations which fund Middle Eastern and global terrorism.
Since the outbreak of the Palestinian intifada in 2000, UNRWA has received $510,000 from the Islamic American Relief Agency, a charity created by the Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA). In October 2004, the US Treasury found that IARA had transferred millions of dollars to terrorist networks run by Osama bin Laden, and has since frozen IARA’s assets.
IARA’s chief, Mubarak Hamed, is personally accused of raising $5 million for al-Qaida during a fund-raising trip to Sudan and other locations in the Middle East in 2000.
UNRWA has so far shown no concern that one of its donors is an al-Qaida sponsor.