But the fact of the matter is that UNRWA employees are Hamas members and sympathizers.
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When UNRWA suspended a union leader for suspected Hamas activity, staff went on strike.
His clear goal was to shift the blame away from UNRWA for the unpopular policies.
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She also highlighted the great role that UNRWA teachers play in educating Palestine refugee schoolchildren.
Those need assistance from (the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees) UNRWA or other international humanitarian organisations.
"For us it is vital to get computers to our kids, " Adnan Abu Hasna of UNRWA told BBC News.
And as UNRWA's willingness to transfer a letter from Hamas to US Sen.
The UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) closed the centres on 4 April after a compound was stormed by protesters.
The administration claims that none of this money, which it plans to funnel through UNRWA, will go toward funding Hamas.
The past month has been a difficult one for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinians (UNRWA).
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Among the dead were 159 children, two of whom died in an UNRWA school that was shelled Saturday, Ging said.
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UNRWA, which employs mostly local Palestinian staff, and has never had an independent outside audit, is not bound by U.S. sanctions.
Unrwa confirmed it was reopening all of its centres on 9 April.
Protesters blocked the entrance to UNRWA's offices and generally frightened its employees.
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Hamas still needs Western funding too much to gobble up UNRWA entirely.
Important legislation to reform UNRWA has also come from U.S. Senator Mark Kirk but has not yet succeeded in passing through the Congress.
The UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) said the centres would stay closed until it received security assurances for its property and staff.
In an interview with the BBC, the director of the UN aid agency Unrwa, John Ging, said the conditions in Gaza were "horrific".
Unrwa "is working on a programme of other events, which will be forwarded to those interested as soon as possible, " the statement adds.
Indeed, members of Congress note that if it weren't for Israeli objections, they would have ended US financial support for UNRWA years ago.
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Recently, she has been appointed as member in UNRWA reform committees.
UNRWA, with its role of UN enabler for the Palestinian war against Israel, was not the only target of the committee's foreign aid budget bill.
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The Congressional Research Service has stated that it is impossible to claim that US funds to UNRWA do not at least indirectly finance terror groups.
With funds dwindling, UNRWA is struggling to retain its patronage network.
's Ban Ki-moon, standing in a damaged UNRWA warehouse, backlit by what appear to be rays of the sun, during his visit in January to Gaza.
The UN's relief agency Unrwa said it was "with great regret" that it had been forced to make a difficult decision temporarily to halt aid deliveries.
UNRWA, founded in 1949, has been stretched because of the chaos in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the two Israeli-controlled bits of a would-be Palestinian state.
Unrwa provides aid for an estimated 800, 000 Palestinians in Gaza.
This assistance does not include US financial support for UNRWA, an agency devoted exclusively to providing welfare benefits to Palestinians while subordinating itself to a Palestinian political agenda.
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UNRWA, one of the United Nations' oldest and largest agencies.
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