The allegations prompted a number of nations, together with the USA, to pause funding.
When the allegations emerged, UNRWA fired some workers members, saying it acted to guard the company’s capability to ship humanitarian help, and an impartial inside UN investigation was launched.
UNRWA stated some workers launched into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that workers took half within the Oct 7 assault, based on a report by the company dated February.
“What’s at stake is the destiny of the Palestinians in the present day in Gaza within the quick time period who’re going by a fully unprecedented humanitarian disaster,” Lazzarini advised RTS.
UNRWA runs colleges, healthcare clinics and different social companies in Gaza, and distributes humanitarian help. The UN has stated some 3,000 members of workers are nonetheless working to ship help within the enclave, the place it says 576,000 individuals – one quarter of the inhabitants – are a step away from famine.
“The company I at present handle is the one company that delivers public companies to Palestinian refugees,” Lazzarini stated.
“We’re the quasi-ministry of schooling, of main well being. If we had been to eliminate such a physique, who would deliver again the million of women and boys who’re traumatised within the Gaza Strip in the present day again to a studying atmosphere?”
