A total of nine major donor nations have announced by Jan. 28 that they have suspended their aid to UNRWA because of its dozen employees joining Hamas on its October 7 rampage: the U.S., the U.K. (including Scotland, which issued a separate announcement), Canada,...
Meanwhile, Lazzarini said that the agency "has not yet received any evidence confirming Israel's allegations that UNRWA employees participated in the Oct. 7 attack," noting that it would be wrong to dismantle the UNRWA before reaching a permanent political solution. In January, the organization wa...
Abu Hasna, amedia advisorfor UNRWA, admitted on the webinar that there was “real information” about the agency’s employees taking part in the attacks on Israel. Yet, he claimed that “at the end of the day, we at UNRWA were one of the victims of what happened on Oct. 7.” Abu ...
Last month, the organization was rocked by Israel's accusations that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in the Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel, carried out by Hamas. This led to several countries halting their contributions, amounting to approximately 440 million U.S. dollars, which represents n...
involved in the Oct. 7 assault and had been fired. A Hamas commander in Lebanon - killed last month in an Israeli strike - was found to have had an UNRWA job. Another commander killed in Gaza last week doubled as a U.N. aid worker. UNRWA had confirmed ...
Israel to ban UNRWA by end of January Israel and some of its allies is accusing UNRWA that some of its employees may have participated in the Oct. 7 attacks.
UNRWA, the largest UN organization operating in the region, terminated the contracts of 12 employees as a result of the allegations. The UNappointedan independent panel to conduct an assessment of UNRWA following the accusations. US Position Unchanged ...
It later said some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attack, according to a report by the agency dated February. MORE: Places the U.S. Government Warns Not to...
It said seven UNRWA employees stormed into Israel, one took part in a kidnapping and another helped steal a soldier's body. Three others are also accused of taking part in the attacks. Ten were listed as having ties to Hamas and one to the Islamic Jihad militant group...
The dossier also contains over a dozen biographies of UNRWA employees who allegedly participated in the Oct. 7 that killed approximately 1,200 people in Israel, the overwhelming majority of them civilians. Article content Article content Meet Faisal Ali Mussalem Al Naami (in black),...