The real problem with the UN’s agency for Palestinians

NOTHING ispermanentUNUNRWAUNRWAUNRWA , but in the Holy Land some things come close. The Relief and Works Agency () was founded in 1949 to aid 700,000 Palestinian refugees displaced by the creation of Israel. Meant as a temporary fix, its mandate has been renewed every few years since. This year it will turn 75—if it survives that long.Last month Israel alleged that 12 employees took part in the October 7th massacre, in which Hamas militants murdered some 1,200 Israelis. It has also claimed, without publicly offering any evidence, that 10% of the agency’s 13,000 employees in Gaza are members of Hamas. In early February the Israeli army took journalists on a tour of a tunnel beneath ’s headquarters in Gaza, which it said housed Hamas military infrastructure.