UN Watch

Daughter of former Gaza hostage confronts UN over UNRWA funding despite Hamas ties

UNRWA was founded in 1949 and operates in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, providing humanitarian aid and education for Palestinians.

|ByMAYA ZANGER-SHAMIR
Neta Heiman Mina, whose mother was held hostage in Gaza for nearly 2 months, speaks to a UN human rights panel on September 15, 2026.
A damaged sign is pictured at the headquarters of UNRWA, following an Israeli raid, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, July 12, 2024.

UNRWA overstated progress on institutional changes, preserved terrorism issues, watchdog says

The investigation, titled the "Report Card on UNRWA Reform," analyzed the agency's implementation of 50 recommendations issued by an independent review group led by a former French foreign minister,

|ByALEX CARSON
Former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky sharing her experience of sexual abuse at the UN Human Rights Council.

'I am proof of Hamas's violence': Ex-hostage Ilana Gritzewsky tells 'Post' of sexual abuse in Gaza

A Hamas terrorist was "hugging me, kissing me, saying that I'm beautiful, that I'm going to marry him," Gritzewsky told the Post • 'I am a woman who survived'

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
A PALESTINIAN man walks past the building of the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City on January 8, 2018.

UNRWA fires 70 employees after Israeli accusations of Hamas affiliation

Earlier this week, USAID announced that it had referred 101 current or former UNRWA staff members to the US State Department for suspension or disbarment over their role in the October 7 massacre.

|ByTZVI JASPER

UNHRC gives impunity to violators, watchdog says

Council ignored China, Cuba, Libya, N. Korea in ’09, while slamming Israel 27 times.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010ByE.B. SOLOMONT, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
The Jerusalem Post

UNHRC gives impunity to violators, watchdog says

Council ignored China, Cuba, Libya and North Korea in ’09, while slamming Israel with 27 out of its 33 country-specific resolutions.

FEBRUARY 25, 2010ByE.B. SOLOMONT, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
The Jerusalem Post