EXCLUSIVE — The State Department said the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs should ensure it is protecting Gaza aid programs from suspected Hamas meddling after reporting from the Washington Examiner.
OCHA is under fire after a Thursday Washington Examiner report exposed its years of cooperation with a Hamas-linked state agency to distribute humanitarian resources, based on documents obtained by the Israeli watchdog group NGO Monitor. The State Department announced $3.8 billion in U.S. funding for OCHA since December, though a State Department spokesperson emphasized that it is not for the agency’s Gaza operations specifically.
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