to disrupt it, and aims to strip Palestinians of their refugee status, according to emails leaked to Foreign Policy magazine. According to Kushner UNRWA "perpetuates a status quo, is corrupt, inefficient and doesn't help peace". Monies to UNRWA would be rechanneled to Arab countries in the area in the expectation that they would eventually absorb the Palestinian refugees resident in their states. Both Kushner and Nikki Haley propose a cut off of U.S. funding for the organization, a proposal opposed by the State Department, the Pentagon, and the U.S. intelligence community, on the grounds that any such move would only fuel violence in the Middle East. 2020 alleged undermining of UNRWA by Israel and the U.S. In January 2020, UNRWA said that in East Jerusalem, Israel was building schools and institutions "to compete" with UNRWA and stop it from operating there. The same statement had initially alleged that Israel and the United States were "advocating against funding UNRWA in the European parliaments and elsewhere," later clarifying it was referring to pro-Israel groups. The agency also reaffirmed that its mandate includes East Jerusalem. See also 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict Palestine and the United Nations Israeli–Palestinian conflict List of Directors and Commissioners-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Nahr al-Bared Palestine refugee Palestinian people Taylor Force Act Textbooks in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict Notes References Bibliography External links UNRWA Facebook profile UNRWA Twitter profile UNRWA YouTube channel UNRWA in Syria American Friends of UNRWA UNRWA Spanish Committee Collection of relevant documents United States GAO report on UNRWA (pdf) U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants' Campaign to End Refugee Warehousing in refugee camps around the world, people are confined to their settlement and denied their basic rights. Israel Feuds With Agency Set Up to Aid Palestinians (New York Times: 18 October 2004) Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN's Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees (By James G. Lindsay, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: January 2009) Arab–Israeli conflict United Nations operations in the Middle East United Nations General Assembly subsidiary organs History of the Palestinian refugees Palestinian refugees Organizations established in 1949