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UN chief appoints independent review group headed by ex-French FM to probe UNRWA
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A man collects trash while wearing a jacket bearing the logo of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency UNRWA along a street in the city of Jenin in the West Bank on January 30, 2024. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
An independent review group led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna will assess the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says.
Israel accused at least 12 UNRWA staff of taking part in Hamas’s deadly October 7 assault on southern Israel. A number of key donors of the agency have since frozen their funding, with the US calling the allegations “highly credible.”
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