"Head of UN agency for Palestinians defies Israeli calls to quit"
"The head of the struggling UN agency for Palestinian refugees said he would stay in post as long as possible, defying Israeli demands for his resignation following allegations that a dozen of his Gazan staff took part in Hamas’s devastating October 7 attack on Israel.
The allegations — still unproven — have prompted the US and 14 other donors to suspend about $440mn of funding to the agency, UNRWA, and brought intense scrutiny of its work at a time when it is providing vital aid to nearly 2mn Palestinians in the besieged Gaza strip.
He said Israel had not presented evidence of its allegations to UNRWA, adding that the UN agency had been forced to respond to leaks in the media of an Israeli intelligence assessment that at least 12 of its Palestinian employees had taken part in the Hamas raid. These included one accused of kidnapping a woman and another said to have seized the body of a slain soldier.
The intelligence assessment, which has been seen by the FT, provides no evidence for the claims, which it says are based on smartphone intercepts and captured identity cards. But the US has said it found them “highly, highly credible”. "
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Financial Times:
The intelligence assessment, which
has been seen by the FT, provides no evidence for the claims, which it
says are based on smartphone intercepts and captured identity cards.
Skudeneshavn 5. april 2024
Jan Marton Jensen
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3. februar 2024
Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/content/e326a1d3-7b45-4609-8179-dfb6a66abae9?accessToken=zwAGEJ9vXIngkdPjJqHTe0VGCdOBed-2pmq66Q.MEUCIBs1oMOF6dYg66XCKy453cSnbcUfIwudD71urubw7WZoAiEAiyZ7-Wyje5xBC8qRtl33l67V7z0zgJKZUBAm9-dR9I4&sharetype=gift&token=577cad53-d501-4d21-9a5f-bf4e23dc4a50
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