UN agency head ‘horrified’ by allegation that staff joined Hamas attacks

The UN’s key aid agency for Palestinian refugees, the Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), said on Friday it had opened an investigation into several employees suspected of involvement in the 7 October attacks on Israel by Hamas, and that it had severed ties with those staff members.
A spokesperson said Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA commissioner general, would ‘immediately terminate the contracts’ of a number of staff

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