You know, it’s a remarkable thing, the United Nations. Remarkable in its ambitions, remarkable in its founding ideals, and remarkable, above all, in its capacity to look directly at the world as it is and see something else entirely.
The USAID Inspector General has now expanded its probe into more than 100 UNRWA employees linked to Hamas and the October 7th attacks. The probe specifically targets individuals “deemed to have been involved in the capture and murder of Americans.” That’s the US government’s own language. From the USAID Inspector General’s FY2026 oversight plan. Not suspected. Deemed. By American federal investigators. In the capture and murder of American citizens.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant provided the United Nations with the names of 1,468 UNRWA employees Israel identified as affiliated with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, cross-referenced against Israeli intelligence databases including documents seized during military operations in Gaza. One in eight UNRWA employees in Gaza. According to Israeli intelligence, affiliated with the same organisation that murdered 1,200 people, including 43 American citizens confirmed in the US Department of Justice’s federal indictment of Hamas leadership, on October 7th.
The UN investigated itself. It found nine employees who “may have been involved” in the October 7th attacks. Nine. Of 1,468. The hedging of “may have been” is itself instructive, but leave that aside. The more remarkable thing is what happened next. The UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services handed its report to the USAID Inspector General. The names of every implicated employee had been redacted. Not some of them. All of them. In the words of the USAID Inspector General’s office, the report was “rendered unusable for our purposes.” The UN then refused to provide the names of terminated staff. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform made formal requests. The UN refused those too.
The UN investigated its own employees for participating in the murder of 1,200 people including 43 confirmed American citizens, found the evidence sufficient to fire nine of them, and then made certain that no American investigator could ever know who those nine people were.
One assumes there was a good reason for this.
What UNRWA Actually Is. Before We Go Any Further.
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