An investigation report by the Office of Inspector General of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has revealed that an additional 101 UNRWA staff members either participated in the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7 or were affiliated with Hamas’s military wing and other terrorist factions in Gaza. The findings were submitted to the U.S. State Department and obtained by the American news outlet Washington Free Beacon.
According to the report, dozens of UNRWA school principals, teachers, security personnel, escorts, psychosocial counselors, and medical professionals were also members of Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades or other terrorist organizations operating in Gaza. The Inspector General recommended that all 101 current or former UNRWA employees be placed on a government-wide blacklist, preventing them from participating in any U.S.-funded foreign aid programs for a period of ten years.
Among those identified were deputy school principals, a mathematics and computer science teacher, and other educational staff. One teacher reportedly served as a Hamas sniper, while another transported anti-tank missiles to a pre-arranged location during the October 7 terrorist attacks. Another UNRWA deputy school principal reportedly served as a platoon commander in Hamas’s Nuseirat Battalion and was responsible for communications during the October 7 assault.
The findings are expected to intensify calls in Congress to dismantle UNRWA or formally designate it as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under the Trump administration. For the past two decades, Israel has argued that UNRWA - the 76-year-old UN agency created exclusively to provide assistance to Palestinians - has effectively become an extension of Hamas, helping maintain the group's grip over aid distribution throughout the Gaza Strip.
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