Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90
View of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2018.

The United Nations voted Friday 170-2 to extend the mandate of the UN Relief and Works Agency for three more years, until 2023.

The resolution, which passed with three abstentions and 14 countries that were not present for the vote of the UN Fourth Committee in New York, did not mention the current corruption investigation into the agency’s top management.

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Only the United States and Israel opposed the resolution.

UNRWA provides support solely to Arab refugees from the 1948 and 1967 wars between the surrounding Arab nations and Israel, as well as their descendant generations – who are also automatically granted “refugee” status – the only people in the entire world for whom such an action is taken.

UN’s Findings on UNRWA Corruption Shows We Were Right, Israel Says

The agency’s commissioner-general, Pierre Krahenbuhl, resigned last week after allegations of mismanagement and abuses of authority by senior agency officials emerged in a UN ethics report.

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Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.