While UNRWA USA is an independent nonprofit, the suit said the organization's stated mission is to support UNRWA, and the charity has called the UN agency's workers "colleagues."
While UNRWA has faced cash crunches before, the collective suspension has prompted an unprecedented crisis
Major donors suspended funding to UNRWA following allegations that staff participated in Hamas's October 7 terror attack.
UNRWA officials say they expect the UN oversight office's preliminary investigation report to take several weeks.