Envoy to UN welcomes derecognition of UNRWA, says Israel will work with other aid groups

Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon welcomes Israel’s retraction of a 1967 agreement that served as the basis of Israel’s relations with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and their descendants.

“Despite the overwhelming evidence we submitted to the UN that substantiate Hamas’ infiltration of UNRWA, the UN did nothing to rectify the situation,” Danon says in a tweet.

“The State of Israel will continue to cooperate with humanitarian organizations but not with organizations that promote terrorism against us,” he adds.

Last week, the Knesset passed a bill banning UNRWA from operating from Israeli territory and forbidding Israeli government agencies from working with UNRWA. The bill takes effect in three months.

“UNRWA — the organization whose employees participated in the October 7th massacre and many of whose employees are Hamas operatives — is part of the problem in the Gaza Strip and not part of the solution,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz said earlier. “The UN was presented with endless evidence about Hamas operatives working at UNRWA and about the use of UNRWA facilities for terror purposes and nothing was done about it.”