Australia and over a dozen other countries paused funding to United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in January following the allegations about its staff.
Nine staff members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees may have been involved in the October 7, 2023, Hamas“For nine people, the evidence was sufficient to conclude that they may have been involved in the seventh of October attacks,” deputy spokesperson Farhan HaqHe was referring to findings of the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services, which he said had completed an investigation into the alleged involvement of 19...
Haq said all the nine individuals who the investigation concluded may have been involved were men. He did not give details of what they may have done, but said:“For us, any participation in the attacks is a tremendous betrayal of the sort of work that we are supposed to be doing on behalf of the Palestinian people.”
Shortly after the UN announcement, Israeli military spokesperson Nadav Shoshani posted on social media platform X, saying “Your ‘relief’ agency has officially stooped to a new level of low and it is time that the world sees your true face.”The UN’s Haq said the United Nations investigation had made findings in relation to 19 UNRWA staff members.
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