Israel accuses 190 UN agency staff of participating in Hamas attack – Reuters
Not 12, but 190 employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) took part in the attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Israel in October 2023.
According to Israeli intelligence, all of them are members of Hamas, and some are members of the Islamic Jihad group.
Reuters has reviewed the six-page report. This is what is there:
11 employees worked as teachers and were at the same time militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The report includes their names and photos.
One employee, who was also working at the school, helped his son capture an Israeli woman.
One social worker took the body of an Israeli officer to Gaza and coordinated the movement of terrorists.
Another social worker was seen participating in the massacre in Kibbutz Be’eri, where every tenth resident was killed.
A fourth UNRWA representative was involved in the massacre at the Reims music festival, where more than 360 people were killed, and an attack on a nearby military base.
The report says that among these 190 Palestinians are at least two who were killed by IDF soldiers.
- Israel has officially provided data on 12 employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians in Need (UNRWA) who may have participated in the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, when 1,200 people were killed and 253 kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip.
- An investigation began. UNRWA said it had released the suspects, and the UN promised to punish the perpetrators. Funding for UNRWA has been suspended for the duration of the investigation by the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, and Germany. The EU has not yet stopped funding, but may do so based on the results of the investigation.
- Israel says that UNRWA has many Hamas members, and it will make efforts to stop the agency from operating in the Gaza Strip. Hamas denies everything.
- Established in 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees provides medical, educational and humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. It has 13 thousand employees in Gaza.
