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UAE allocates $5 million to support UNRWA’s Gaza reconstruction efforts
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The United Arab Emirates has allocated $5 million in support of the efforts of chief United Nations Coordinator for the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) Sigrid Kaag toward the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, state news agency WAM reports.
Some 16 countries have suspended funding for UNRWA over allegations a dozen of its staff participated in Hamas’ October 7 onslaught in southern Israel.
A dossier purportedly disseminated by Israel alleges that 12 employees of the UN agency took part in the deadly assault in which terrorists murdered close to 1,200 Israelis and took another 253 captive in Gaza. The allegations claim that one of the 12 men implicated was a UNRWA teacher accused of being armed with an anti-tank missile, while another teacher had been accused of filming a hostage being taken captive on October 7.
Another of the staffers, also an elementary school teacher, allegedly served as a Hamas commander and participated in the massacre in Kibbutz Be’eri, while a man employed by UNRWA as a social worker was allegedly involved in the kidnapping of an IDF soldier’s body on that day.
Of the 12 UNRWA workers accused of participating in the October 7 massacre, seven were reportedly teachers, two were educational consultants and others were humanitarian aid warehouse managers.
The Times of Israel Community.