Trump administration to Post: White House was right about UNRWA corruption

"The former head of the United Nations' Palestinian aid agency who resigned in the face of an inquiry into misconduct allegations has denied any wrongdoing... Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl, a Swiss diplomat, was replaced on Wednesday, pending completion of a review of 'management-related matters' at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the agency said...

An administration official told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that the new revelations prove the problematic conduct of the UN agency, which the US peace team has warned about since the day President Donald Trump took office.

Jared Kushner, senior adviser and Trump's son-in-law, has been a harsh critic of the agency. In April, Foreign Policy revealed a letter that Kushner forwarded on January 11, 2018, to various current and former government officials, including former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, former national security adviser H. R. McMaster, and Jason Greenblatt, Trump's former special envoy to the Middle East.

'It's very important to have an honest and sincere effort to disrupt UNWRA,' wrote Kushner. UNRWA 'perpetuates a status quo, is corrupt, inefficient, and doesn't help peace. Our goal can't be to keep things stable as they are, our goal had to be to make things significantly BETTER! Sometimes, you have to strategically risk breaking things in order to get there.'..."