The United Nations says nine employees of UNRWA, its agency for Palestinian refugees, “may have been involved” in the October 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas, adding that they have been fired.
“We have sufficient information in order to take the actions that we’re taking — – which is to say, the termination of these nine individuals,” UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said on August 5.
Haq said the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will need to evaluate any further steps to “fully corroborate”.
Haq said all the nine individuals who the investigation concluded may have been involved were men.
He did not give details of what they may have done, but said: “For us, any participation in the attacks is a tremendous betrayal of the sort of work that we are supposed to be doing on behalf of the Palestinian people.”
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