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U.S. Senator for Maryland Chris Van Hollen continued his defense of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and its work in Gaza in an appearance on CBS News' 'Face the Nation' on Sunday. 'The claim that Prime Minister Netanyahu and others are making that somehow UNRWA is a proxy for Hamas are just flat out lies, that's a flat out lie,' he told journalist Margaret Brennan. The U.S.
'Netanyahu has wanted to get rid of UNRWA because he had seen them as a means to continue the hopes of the Palestinian people for a homeland of their own,' Van Hollen said, adding that the right-wing Israeli leader's 'primary objective' was preventing the formation of a Palestinian state.
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