An independent report commissioned after Israel alleged 12 UNRWA employees took part in the Hamas attacks has found Israel had not expressed concerns about anyone on the agency staff lists it gets annually for more than a decade.
Israel did not express concerns about anyone on the UNRWA staff lists it received annually since 2011, an independent review has found.The report was commissioned after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the United Nations agency helping Palestinian refugees took part in the Hamas attacks in Israel on 7 October.Several countries, including the UK, froze donations to UNRWA as a result.
Between January 2022 and February 2024, UN investigators received 151 allegations - most of them related to social media posts 'made public by external sources', the report added.It said UNRWA shares lists of staff with host countries for its 32,000 staff, including about 13,000 in Gaza.
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