EXCLUSIVE: Federal Probe Reveals How Hamas Bullies and Coerces Gaza Aid Groups, Diverts American Aid Dollars to Their War Effort

Hamas officials routinely bullied and intimidated employees of U.S.-funded NGOs operating in Gaza in order to control their operations, according to a confidential probe by American investigators that was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The probe reveals that Hamas threatened to sic its fearsome police force on aid workers and even tried to access the NGOs' private employee data as the terror group moved to establish outposts at hospitals and redirect aid to meet its needs.

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Exclusive: UN Is Actively Obstructing US Probe Into Links Between Its Gaza Relief Groups and Hamas, as Americans Warn UN To Divorce 'Cancerous UNRWA'

Multiple U.N. relief agencies continue to stonewall a U.S. probe into their ties to Hamas, withholding key documents and other information that could reveal their employees as affiliates of the terror group, according to U.S. officials and diplomats briefed on the matter.

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EXCLUSIVE: US Probe of Embattled UN Gaza Relief Agency Expands to 1,500 Staffers Suspected of Hamas Ties: UNRWA Could Soon Be Labeled a 'Foreign Terrorist Organization'

The federal investigation into staff at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency—the U.N. Gaza relief organization that's been closely linked to Hamas—will soon encompass at least 1,500 UNRWA-linked individuals suspected of terror ties. This unprecedented dragnet—reported here for the first time by the Washington Free Beacon—exposes an aid group brimming with Hamas operatives, and is generating momentum in Congress and the Trump administration for harsher sanctions on the embattled aid group, according to congressional staffers briefed on the matter.

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GOP Senators Push To Prohibit US Funding for UNRWA

A coalition of Republican senators led by Rick Scott (Fla.) is pushing a bill that would prohibit the United States from funding a Hamas-tied U.N. agency, according to a copy of the bill obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

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‘I Have No Idea, To Be Honest’: Columbia Encampment Organizer Mahmoud Khalil Says It’s Unclear Whether Hamas Targeted Civilians on Oct 7

Columbia University encampment leader Mahmoud Khalil said in an interview that it's unclear whether Hamas targeted civilians in its Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel. Hamas is widely understood to have done so.

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UN Agencies Are Stonewalling a Probe Into Their Employees' Ties to Hamas, US Investigators Say in Report to Congress

The chief oversight body responsible for tracking U.S. foreign assistance says United Nations agencies are stonewalling a probe into their ties to Hamas. The agencies have failed to provide investigators with information that could identify their employees as affiliates of the terror group, according to a non-public report transmitted to Congress and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Blacklists UN School Principal for Participating in October 7

The Trump administration formally blacklisted a principal at a United Nations school in Gaza after federal investigators unearthed evidence that he participated in the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks as a member of Hamas's East Jabaliya Battalion, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. It is the first time the United States has banned a terrorist affiliated with a U.N. humanitarian agency from participating in U.S. foreign aid projects, according to a nonpublic investigative summary provided to Congress and reviewed by the Free Beacon.

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‘Everything Is On the Table’: Trump Admin Weighs Terror Sanctions for UNRWA

The Trump administration says that "everything is on the table"—including terrorism-related sanctions—as it moves closer to taking fresh punitive measures against the Hamas-linked United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), according to three senior officials, who told the Washington Free Beacon that the aid group’s "time playing a role in Gaza is over."

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EXCLUSIVE: Ricketts Tells State Department UNRWA Must Have ‘No Role’ in Post-War Gaza

The United States must not allow the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to participate in any post-war Gaza plan, a group of 25 Republican senators led by Pete Ricketts (Neb.) wrote to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday, citing the organization’s ties to Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups.

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How the UN Tossed Out Israeli Intel To Downplay UNRWA’s Ties to Hamas

A U.N. probe into its staffers' involvement in the Oct. 7 attack against Israel dismissed key intelligence—including intercepted audio recordings and cell phone data—that connected those staffers to Hamas, a Washington Free Beacon review of confidential U.N. documents found.

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