Source: ZeroHedge.com
This looks like an admission of guilt after months of denial: “The UN said on Monday that nine staff working for its Palestine refugee agency UNRWA will be sacked because they may have been involved in the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks against Israel,” a statement posted Monday to the UN’s online press release section stated.
UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq confirmed that all nine will be terminated following an investigation of official allegations initially lodged by Israel that UNWRA staff had been involved in the terror attacks which killed about 1,200 people near the border with Gaza, and which resulted in 251 Israelis and foreigners taken hostage.
Already most countries have withdrawn funding from the UN agency – known according to its full name as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East – due to the Israeli allegations, which said that at least a dozen local Palestinian staff members took part in the attack. In total the UN said it investigated 19.
This major development is a significant reversal from the agency’s stance in March, when it claimed some its employees had been pressure by Israeli security services in to making false confessions while in detention. Controversy exploded in America as well, given the outsized funding of the UN agency from Washington (and US taxpayers).
At one point in the controversy Israeli officials had claimed that a whopping 450 UNWRA staff had been involved in terrorist organizations. In total the UNRWA is known to employ 13,000 people in Gaza….