The dossier has been used as a major basis for countries suspending their funding to the crucial aid group.
Flour is being distributed in Khan Yunis by the UNRWA to Gazans who had difficulty finding bread due to Israeli attacks, on November 22, 2023 in Gaza.A key Israeli intelligence dossier used by countries to justify defunding the primary aid group for Palestinian refugees contains “no evidence” to back up Israel’s allegations against the group, new reports have found.
obtained a copy of the six-page document in which Israeli officials alleged that a dozen of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees’s were involved in the October 7 attack led by Hamas. The allegations made in the document, originating from the Israel Defense Forces , havewhose leaders have long sought to destroy UNRWA — there appears to be little other evidence for the allegations so far; despite the U.S. being the first country to suspend its funding to the agency last month, Secretary of State Antony Blinkenin a recent press conference that U.S. officials haven’t attempted to independently verify the allegations, even as he called them “highly, highly credible.”The funding suspension is happening despite the seemingly unverified allegations involving only a small fraction of UNRWA staff, and with the UN and the agency working to target and root out any potential staff that had ties to the Hamas attack. The UN hasIsraeli officials were reportedly shocked that the information had even gotten out to foreign officials, the report finds: “Israel has made so many accusations against UNRWA over the years that no one expected this claim to be the one that stuck, the official said,”that the allegations must be taken seriously, but it is unconscionable to cut off funding to the entire agency, a lifeline for, as a result. This is especially important, experts say, as Israel is under orders by the International Court of Justice The suspension “is a violation of international humanitarian law, it’s a violation of international principles, it’s a violation of the ruling by the ICJ which says nobody should squeeze international humanitarian aid … and it’s a violation, arguably, of the genocide convention because it will devastate the lives of 1.2 million people who were on UNRWA’s food lines even before the 7th of October,” said former UNRWA spokesperson Christopher Gunness on
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