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Nine UNRWA staff may have been associated with Oct. 7 attack on Israel, states UN

9 team member of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNWRA). may have been associated with the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on. Israel, and they will be fired, the United Nations stated on. Monday.

For nine people, the evidence sufficed to conclude. that they may have been involved in the seventh of October. attacks, Deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq stated

He was describing findings of the U.N. Workplace of Internal. Oversight Providers, which he stated had actually finished its. investigation into the supposed participation of 19 UNRWA staff. members in the attacks.

OIOS made findings in relation to each of the 19 UNRWA. staff members alleged to have been associated with the attacks, he. stated.

In one case, no proof was gotten by OIOS to. support the allegations of the staff member's involvement, while. in nine other cases, the evidence acquired by OIOS was. insufficient to support the employee's involvement, he. said.

Haq said all the 9 individuals who the examination. concluded might have been included were guys. He did not provide. information of what they might have done, however said:

For us, any participation in the attacks is a. remarkable betrayal of the sort of work that we are supposed to. be doing on behalf of the Palestinian people.

The United Nations released the examination after

Israel charged that 12 UNRWA personnel participated in the. Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks

which set off the Gaza war.

Israel stepped up its allegations in March, saying over. 450 UNRWA personnel were military operatives in Gaza terrorist. groups. UNRWA uses 32,000 people across its location of. operations, 13,000 of them in Gaza.

UNWRA stated in March that some workers launched into. Gaza from Israeli detention reported having actually been pressured by. Israeli authorities

into incorrectly mentioning that the firm has Hamas links

which staff participated in the Oct. 7 attacks.

(source: Reuters)