“Any UNRWA employee who was involved in acts of terror will be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution,” Lazzarini said in a Feb. 8 statement. Although UNRWA has never confirmed the number of employees it has fired, Lazzarini’s statement did note that, “Of the 12 people ...
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's...
A number of UNRWA donors, including Canada, Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Estonia, Japan, Austria and Romania, have recently joined the United States in pausing funding for UNRWA after Israel accused several employees of the agency of involvement in the...
A number of UNRWA donors, including Canada, Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Estonia, Japan, Austria and Romania, have recently joined the United States in pausing funding for UNRWA after Israel accused several employees of the agency of involvement in the...
Assuming it is authenticated, the recording brings the total number of agency workers found to be active participants in the attacks to 14. Israel also said Tuesday it believes that at least 450 UNWRA employees “are military operatives in terror groups in Gaza.”...
“And we have made that clear since the outset of this conflict, and a great number of our engagements with the government of Israel have been around ensuring that they do let humanitarian assistance in, and that they do ensure that humanitarian assistance gets to the people that need it. ...
The large number of Palestinian employees obscures UNRWA's identity as principally funded and maintained by Western States. Yet, UNRWA neither promotes nor contains Palestinian nationalism, but like all other institutions it is a contested space, which is reshaped by larger political and social ...
UNRWA defined a refugee as someone who was displaced after as little as two years residence in Palestine before 1948, it made refugee status hereditary without a limitation on the number of generations, and it paid welfare benefits according to family size. These conditions ensured the continued ...
Germany, along with the US and more than a dozen other countriessuspendedfunding to UNRWA at the end of January following Israel’s allegations. UNRWA, the largest UN organization operating in the region, terminated the contracts of 12 employees as a result of the allegations. ...
The suspension of funds by donor countries came after Israel accused UNRWA employees in Gaza of taking part in the Hamas attacks against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. As of March 2023, the total number of UNRWA-registered Palestine refugees in Lebanon is 489,292. The registration with the UNRWA ...