A boy sits outside the entrance to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) building complex in Gaza City on September 6, 2025.
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Commentators say the agency is “rotten to the core” and is teaching future generations to hate.
Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan has possibly laid the groundwork for the disarmament—and maybe even the disbanding—of the Hamas terror group. But commentators say that for the region to have a chance of remaining peaceful, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will eventually have to go too.
These are particularly concerned about the influence of schools operated by the agency, which—as we have previously reported—have been linked to the embedding of anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish messaging.
Canadian writer Mike Fegelman stressed on Wednesday that “there is no chance for peace when a population is taught to hate and revere death.” He suggested UNRWA was directly responsible for this, and described the agency as “rotten to the core.”
Jonathan Conricus, former spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, added more generally that neither Hamas nor UNRWA should have “any role in shaping the present or the future of Gaza.” He told Fox:
Now is the time to invest in a better future for Gaza and the region, and the time to remove UNRWA.
Despite longstanding concerns about the agency, the International Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday that claims about it had not been substantiated. The ICJ added that Israel must support the work of UNRWA, which it last year banned from operating in Gaza.
Hillel Neuer, executive director of the monitoring group UN Watch, later stressed that while the court claimed there are just a few ‘bad apples’ involved in UNRWA’s operations, “the opposite is true.”
Neuer pointed to his group’s reports on UNRWA hiring “Hamas terror chiefs” to run Gaza’s education system, the celebration of the October 7th terror attacks by (again) UNRWA teachers in Gaza, and Philippe Lazzarini’s—that is, the boss of UNRWA’s—“ties to Hamas terror chiefs.”
Today's ICJ ruling says UNRWA's terrorists are just a few bad apples.
The opposite is true — and we have all the receipts.
Apparently not put off by these (and many more) reports, the European Commission handed €52 million of taxpayer cash to the agency in June, and is likely to continue supporting its work moving forward.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
