The UN reported this Friday that expanded to 19 the employees of its agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) who are investigated following Israel's accusations of collusion with Hamas, although it closed a case due to lack of evidence.
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According to the spokesperson for the Secretary General, the Department of Internal Affairs (OIOS) added 7 UNRWA workers, of whom he received “information” since January, to the 12 first identified by the Jewish State for allegedly collaborating with the terrorist attack of October 7.
The contracts of these twelve workers were already terminated at the time but, in addition, the OIOS detailed this Friday that is studying “administrative actions” of a “corrective” nature against the closed case, and others for the three suspended cases, which suggests that they remain “under investigation.”
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Regarding the seven new cases reported this Friday, five reported in March and two in April, the organization announced that the Department of Internal Affairs is working on six of them, since another was also suspended pending “additional supporting evidence.” “.
“OIOS has informed us that its investigators had traveled to Israel to hold talks with the Israeli authorities and will make another visit during the month of May. These talks continue and so far have been productive and have allowed progress in the investigations,” the brief concludes. release.
In any case, the document did not doubt that the agency “is irreplaceable and indispensable for the human and economic development of the Palestinians,” as the text pointed out, in an indirect message to Israel, which has advocated ending the agency itself.
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Colonna then specified in a press conference that her commission was not tasked with verifying the specific case of the twelve UNRWA agents accused by Israel, since that was part of this other investigation by the UN Department of Internal Affairs, and she assured that she has not seen the evidence that could support Israel's accusations.
The United States, which has traditionally been the largest donor, suspended it completely and then Congress prohibited the Government from resuming it until at least March of next year.
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