Report: U.N. agencies stonewalling investigation into support for terrorism

It has been documented over and over how employees of the United Nations in the Middle East actually take part in terrorism against Israel.

For example, workers for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East participated with Hamas in that terror group’s launch of a war against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, when 1,200 Israelis were murdered and another 240 for taken hostage.

Further, there’s been confirmation that senior United Nations officials helped the Taliban extract kickbacks from U.N. contractors bankrolled by U.S. tax dollars.

A report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction charged U.N. officials allegedly worked with the Taliban to bribe and extort U.N. contractors supplying aid to Afghanistan in exchange for participation in rich contracts. Of the $10.72 billion in total aid given to Afghanistan between 2021 and the State Department cancelling most of the funds in 2025, $3.83 billion came from the U.S.

That’s according to research from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Much of the corruption came from the World Food Program.

But now a new report from the Free Beacon charges that United Nations operatives are “stonewalling” investigations into their employees’ links to Hamas.

A non-public report given to Congress and obtained by the publication said, “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.”

The report explained the U.S. Agency for International Development inspector general’s office dispatched letters to multiple United Nations agencies just weeks ago. The letters sought the names of those “who worked on U.S.-government funded awards” and details about their “interactions with Hamas.”

The World Food Program confirmed getting the request but provided no additional information while the U.N. Development Program didn’t respond at all, the report said.

“Four others—the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International Organization for Migration, and the World Health Organization—offered ‘partial responses,’ the report said,” according to the Free Beacon.

The investigation, “Operation Stop the Carousel,” is ongoing amid State Department and congressional Republican alarms that U.N. agencies in Gaza still can be infiltrated by Hamas terrorists.

The review was launched by the inspector general who wanted to make certain Hamas operatives employed by the U.N. were not working on projects funded by the U.S.

One UNRWA school official who was part of the terrorist attack on Israel already has been listed as banned from projects funded by the U.S.

According to the Free Beacon:

A spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which the inspector general said gave only a “partial” response to its query, told the Free Beacon that the agency “maintain[s] a strong and constructive relationship with the USAID Office of Inspector General” and that the body has responded to requests for information. The International Organization for Migration—which also gave a “partial” response, according to the investigators’ report—said it “works and communicates regularly with all our donors, including the U.S. Government, fully responding to all inquiries with timely replies.”

Another agency claimed it never got a request and still others declined to respond to Free Beacon requests for comment.

USAID handed out U.S. contributions to U.N. operatives before President Donald Trump dismantled the agency in 2025.

The report also charged Max Primorac, a former senior USAID executive, informed Congress that under Joe Biden, the agency scrapped vetting reforms from Trump’s first term meant to prevent taxpayer funds from ending up in the hands of foreign terror organizations.

He said that allowed “vast sums of U.S. money [to be] diverted to fund terrorists in Gaza, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan.”