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UNRWA should be disbanded and replaced, former general counsel of agency tells House

James Lindsay testified before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that UNRWA is ‘both incompetent and willfully obstructionist of fundamental reforms’

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The UNRWA logo is seen on the vest of an employee during a visit to the Jabal El Hussein refugee camp of UNRWA, , part of a diplomatic mission to Israel and the Palestinian territories, in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday 15 May 2024.

James Lindsay, a former general counsel of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, testified to a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Friday that UNRWA’s cumulative failures over the course of decades to address problems, of...

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