UNRWA vs. UNHCR – The Shocking Numbers!
Both UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) and the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) are mandated by the UN to aid refugees, but there are some significant differences between how these two organizations spend their money, and thus, how successful and efficient they are at using that money to end the refugee crisis...
If one defines success as resolving the refugee’s problems, then UNRWA can only be defined as a complete failure.
UNRWA does not try or want to try to resettle the refugees, nor help the refugees move forward with their lives in a new host country, where some are already 3rd and 4th generation UN welfare recipients.
UNRWA maintains the refugee definition, even for those living in refugee camps within the Palestinian Authority.
UNRWA has 4X more staff members than UNHCR, while UNRWA deals with 6X fewer refugees.
UNRWA spends twice as much per refugee each year than UNHCR does – and has never resettled a single refugee.
UNHCR: Refugees can be resettled in any third country, with the goal to help them get on with their lives. Children of refugees are not considered refugees
UNRWA: Tends to 5.9 million refugees.
UNHCR: Tends to 37.4 million refugees. This includes 31.6 million refugees and people in a refugee-like situation and 5.8 million other people in need of international protection.
UNRWA: $1 billion USD; Number of Countries: 5; Staff: over 30,000 (13,000 in Gaza)
UNHCR: $3.32 billion USD; Number of Countries: 123; Staff: some 19,000
UNRWA ‘Educators’ Linked to Terror
More than 10% of principals and senior education staff employed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip are members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Many continued to draw a regular salary after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 massacre. Hateful material taught in each UNRWA school, under two of which terror tunnels, were discovered by Israeli forces. UNRWA employees actively participated in the Hamas atrocities in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the agency has 450 “military operatives” belonging to Hamas and other terrorist groups on its payroll.
Conclusion: Shut down UNRWA and transfer responsibility for resettling UNRWA’s refugees to the UNHCR.