Germany’s largest political party moves to end funding for UNRWA, tighten oversight of PA aid. “UNRWA is not part of the solution, but part of the problem,” said Uwe Becker, of the Christian Democratic Union.
(Feb. 23, 2026 / JNS) The largest political party in the German federal legislature is calling for an end to financial support of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, the global body’s Palestinian aid organization, according to Jüdische Allgemeine, the country’s national Jewish weekly newspaper.
The Christian Democratic Union, led by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, unanimously approved a motion on Feb. 21 calling for stricter criteria for aid payments to the Palestinians, and an end to German and European donations to UNRWA.
The social services agency has come under increasing scrutiny following documentation that several of its staff participated in Hamas’s terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Critics have long accused the group of close ties to Gazan terror organizations.