israeli-palestinian conflict: In public remarks to his cabinet at its weekly meeting, Netanyahu said UNRWA perpetuated, rather than solved, the Palestinian refugee problem and that anti-Israeli incitement was rife in its institutions, which includes schools, according to CBC. It is time UNRWA be dismantled and merged with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Netanyahu said. Adnan Abu Hasna, a Gaza-based spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency UNRWA said Netanyahu was pursuing a fantasy. Liberals restore 25 million in funding to controversial Palestinian aid agency Fauda brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Netflix Referring to a meeting he held in Jerusalem on Wednesday with Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, Netanyahu said I told her it was time the United Nations re-examine UNRWA's existence. Netanyahu made his comments two days after UNRWA said it had discovered part of a tunnel running under two of its schools in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. The United States, Israel's main ally, was the biggest donor to UNRWA last year, pledging 368 million.
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