NYC mayoral candidate raises funds for UNRWA before hostages released

Zohran Mamdani, candidate for mayor of New York Metropolis, raised cash Sunday night for a United Nations group that employed terrorists on October 7, simply hours earlier than the final dwelling Israeli hostages had been launched from Hamas captivity.

Mamdani ran within the NYC Gaza 5K, a fundraiser for the United Nations Reduction and Works Company (UNRWA). The group was infamously discovered to have employed terrorists in Gaza who took half within the October 7 bloodbath in Israel. Mamdani’s marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Fox Information Digital.

“This morning I ran the NYC Gaza 5K for the third time in Prospect Park, subsequent to the Harlem Run Membership, to lift cash for UNRWA USA, which gives essential humanitarian help and companies to Palestinians in Gaza,” Mamdani wrote on social media.

“I hope you will be a part of me in donating,” he added.

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NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani raised cash for the UNRWA operating within the metropolis’s NYC Gaza 5k on Sunday, October 12. (X/@ZohranKMamdani)

Mamdani added a donation hyperlink for his followers to ship cash to UNRWA.

The State Division issued a scathing report back to Congress on UNRWA in August, ruling that the group should be abolished and past reform. UNRWA’s acknowledged objective is to offer help to Palestinians within the Gaza Strip, however the report says the group is “irreparably compromised”

In response to the State Division doc, in March 2025 the Trump administration demanded that UNRWA “return any remaining unused balances of U.S. funding to its accounts.” UNRWA’s Washington workplace mentioned it will achieve this, “however has not but accomplished the motion.” In Might, the State Division mentioned it was working to “finish U.S. participation in all UNRWA working-level our bodies” on the United Nations.

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Democratic New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks to supporters at a canvas launch occasion in Prospect Park on Sunday, August 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox Information Digital)

The US authorities pulled the plug on UNRWA funding in January 2024 and has not resumed help to the group. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s transfer calling for the outright dissolution of UNRWA added a brand new layer of strain on the UN and main UNRWA donor nations resembling Japan and Germany to reassess UNRWA’s viability.

The Biden administration had given UNRWA $1 billion to US taxpayers funding since 2021 earlier than the freeze got here into impact in 2024.

Former Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant mentioned in February 2024 that dozens of people employed by UNRWA had been straight concerned within the atrocities dedicated towards Israeli residents on October 7, 2023.

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon informed the UN in January that UNRWA ought to finish its operations in Jerusalem.

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In August 2024, Fox Information Digital reported the UN has laid off 9 staff of UNRWA, who’s believed to have participated within the Hamas bloodbath of 1,200 individuals, together with greater than 30 People, on October 7 in southern Israel.

Benjamin Weinthal of Fox Information contributed to this report.