Taking a Page from the Hamas Playbook, the Houthis Turn Humanitarian Aid into a Tool of Political Power

One of the evils of UNRWA is that—alongside a host of other international organizations inside and outside the United Nations—it serves to prop up Hamas’s rule in Gaza by relieving the terrorist group of most responsibilities of civilian government. As Shany Mor recently wrote in Mosaic, a similar peculiar arrangement exists in both Hizballah-dominated Lebanon and the areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority. Fatima Abo Alasrar explains how the Houthis are trying to establish a similar situation in Yemen, in part by intimidating UN workers and stealing humanitarian aid: