UN Report Clearing UNRWA of Terror Ties a ‘Whitewash,’ Witnesses Tell Congress

Three expert witnesses testifying before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee denounced as a whitewash a recent U.N. investigation into its troubled agency assisting Palestinians in Gaza. On May 17, they told the Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, chaired by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), that the Colonna Report was released by a committee stacked with agency supporters handpicked by the agency’s director. The agency, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), has overseen relief distribution and other services to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank since 1949....