Israel said on Wednesday it would sever all ties with UNRWA beginning on Thursday. It accuses the agency of employing Hamas operatives and enabling "terror activity" in Gaza. "UNRWA is riddled with Hamas," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein said on social media platform X. "Beg...
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, Aus...
Sackur then asked whether UNRWA was aware that some of its staff were Hamas members. Lazzarini responded by saying that this was information that was coming only from Israel, that investigations into UNRWA-Hamas membership were inconclusive, and that Israel had not provided UNRWA with evidence of ...
The agency says it's fired nine employees with links to Hamas, but many more are suspected. It doesn't deserve Canada's funding
Israel's justification for the legislation cited past UNRWA staff members for their alleged involvement in the Hamas-led Oct 7 attacks against Israel last year, which killed 1,200 people and took about 240 hostages. On the battlefield, an Israeli strike on a five-story building where displaced...
Israel has alleged that 12 members of the UN's Gaza aid group participated in Hamas' 7 October attack. The UK's decision comes after the US, Italy, Australia and Canada all also suspended additional funding for the UN aid agency.
They began their work after Israel levelled accusations that a dozen UNRWA staff members were directly involved in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, and that many others supported Hamas. The final report doesn’t address the involvement of UNRWA employees in the attack, but it does make ...
Israel had informed Lazzarini of the accusations against the 12 staff members verbally, but other allegations were leaked to media that a larger number of UNRWA employees have Hamas links. NeitherIsrael nor any other official sourcehas shared with UNRWA a dossier alleging that 190 of the agency'...
As of Tuesday, which marked the 171st day since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict, a total of 171 UNRWA employees have been killed in the Gaza Strip. The most recent employee casualty occurred in northern Gaza while looking for food, according to Lazzarini. ...
Rutgers University lecturer Hamid Abdeljaber and UNRWA official Adnan Abu Hasna spoke at a Hamas-affiliated organization’s webinar on Wednesday. Thewebinar, titled “UNRWA after the ban law and the arrival of Trump: Dangers and coping mechanisms,” was a discussion of the aftermath of an Israeli...