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Israel accuses 190 UN staff of being ‘hardened militants’



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An Israeli comprehension dossier that stirred a cascade of countries to hindrance supports for a UN Palestinian assist group includes allegations that some staff took partial in abductions and killings during a Oct. 7 raid that sparked a Gaza war.

The six-page dossier, seen by Reuters, alleges that some 190 UNRWA employees, including teachers, have doubled as Hamas or Islamic Jihad fighters. It has names and cinema for 11 them.

The United Nations has not rigourously perceived a duplicate of a dossier, UN orator Stephane Dujarric pronounced on Monday.

The Palestinians have indicted Israel of equivocating information to taint UNRWA, that says it has dismissed some staffers and is questioning a allegations.

The dossier pronounced one of a 11 is a propagandize solicitor who helped his son kidnap a lady during a Hamas infiltration in that Israel says 1,200 people were killed and 253 kidnapped.

Another, an UNRWA amicable worker, is indicted of vague impasse in a send to Gaza of a slain Israeli soldier’s remains and of coordinating a movements of pick-up trucks used by a raiders and of weapons supplies.

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A third Palestinian in a dossier is indicted of holding partial in a uproar in a Israeli limit encampment Beeri, one-tenth of whose residents were killed. A fourth is indicted of participating in an dispute on Reim, site both of an army bottom that was overshoot and a soap-box where some-more than 360 revellers died.

Foreign Minister Israel Katz pronounced UNRWA conduct Philippe Lazzarini should go. “UNRWA employees participated in a electrocute of Oct 7,” he said. “Lazzarini should pull conclusions and resign.”

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh indicted Israel of a “premeditated domestic attack” on a agency, that it has prolonged criticised, and called for replacement of assist funds.

The dossier was shown to Reuters by a source who could not be identified by name or nationality. The source pronounced that it had been gathered by Israeli comprehension and common with a United States, that on Friday dangling appropriation for UNRWA.

An Israeli central told Reuters a 190 mentioned in a dossier were “hardened fighters, killers” since altogether some 10% of UNRWA staff were believed to have some-more ubiquitous connection with Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

The group employs 13,000 people in Gaza. More than 10 countries, including vital donors a United States and Germany, have halted their appropriation to a agency.

Aid operation jeopardised

That is a outrageous problem for an group that some-more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians demeanour to for day-to-day assistance, and that has already been hard-stretched by Israel’s fight on Hamas in a enclave.

UNRWA pronounced on Monday it would be incompetent to continue operations in Gaza and opposite a segment over a finish of Feb if appropriation were not resumed.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is due to accommodate with vital UNRWA donors in New York on Tuesday, Dujarric said.

Guterres spoke on Monday with a leaders of Jordan and Egypt and also met with a conduct of UN inner investigations to safeguard that an exploration into a Israeli accusations “will be finished quickly and as good as possible,” Dujarric said.

Washington would be looking really tough during a stairs UNRWA takes in response to a allegations, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pronounced during a news conference, describing a allegations as “highly credible” and “deeply, deeply troubling.”

Asked underneath what resources and how shortly a US could cruise resuming support for UNRWA, Blinken said, “It is needed that UNRWA immediately, as it pronounced it would, investigate, that it reason people accountable as necessary, and that it examination a procedures.”

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency was set adult for refugees of a 1948 fight during Israel’s first in what had been British-ruled Palestine. It also tends to millions of a strange refugees’ descendants in Palestinian territories and abroad.

Israel has prolonged indicted UNRWA of perpetuating dispute by troublesome resettlement of refugees and on occasions in a past has pronounced group staff took partial in armed attacks.

UNRWA denies wrongdoing, describing a purpose as service only.

“From comprehension information, papers and temperament cards seized during a march of a fighting, it is now probable to dwindle around 190 Hamas and PIJ militant operatives who offer as UNRWA employees,” a Hebrew-language dossier says.

It accuses Hamas of “methodically and deliberately deploying a militant infrastructure in a far-reaching operation of UN comforts and assets” including schools. Hamas denies that.

Two of a purported Hamas operatives cited in a dossier are described as “eliminated”, or killed by Israeli forces. A 12th Palestinian whose name and design are supposing is pronounced to have no biased membership and to have infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7.

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Also in a list of 12 group are an UNRWA clergyman indicted of defending himself with an anti-tank rocket, another clergyman indicted of filming a warrant and a manager of a emporium in an UNRWA propagandize indicted of opening a war-room for Islamic Jihad.

More than 26,000 people have been killed in Israel’s troops debate opposite Hamas in Gaza, a enclave’s health method said. With flows of assist like food and medicine only a drip of pre-conflict levels, deaths from preventable diseases as good as risk of fast are growing, assist workers say.

Most of Gaza’s people have turn some-more reliant on UNRWA aid, including about one million who have fled Israeli bombardments to preserve in a facilities.

“The militant organisations are cynically exploiting a residents of a Strip and a general organisations whose goal is to yield assist … and in doing so are causing de facto mistreat to residents of a Strip,” a dossier said.

At a weekend, Guterres vowed to reason to comment any worker concerned in “abhorrent” acts, though implored nations to keep appropriation UNRWA for charitable reasons.

“The tens of thousands of group and women who work for UNRWA, many in some of a many dangerous situations for charitable workers, should not be penalised,” Guterres pronounced on Sunday. “The apocalyptic needs of a unfortunate populations they offer contingency be met.”