US President Donald Trump's administration is exploring options to hold the UN Palestinian refugee agency "accountable", a State Department official told The National on Thursday.
The US official described it as “a corrupt organisation with a proven track record of aiding and abetting terrorists”, echoing remarks from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has called UNRWA “a subsidiary of Hamas".
“Everything is on the table. No final decisions have yet been made,” the official said.
US officials have reportedly held internal discussions about imposing terrorism-related sanctions on UNRWA, which was created in 1949 by the UN General Assembly to help Palestinian refugees after the founding of Israel
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