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Ted Cruz: “There are approximately 30,000 staff at UNRWA. We now have…”

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Published | Video Starts at 21:48

And so as we were preparing for the pod, I pulled out my Google and I typed in, how many staff are there at UNRA? And Google came back and said, There are approximately 30,000 staff at UNRWA. We now have an investigation into more than 1500 of them for direct ties to Hamas. That's 5% of the agency. That's not one isolated person. 1500 out of 30,000 suspected of being Hamas terrorists or directly linked to Hamas terrorists, that is a big damn deal. (21:48–22:19)

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