Germany to restart cooperation with UNRWA after suspension over alleged terror ties

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Source: Politico

Germany to restart cooperation with UNRWA after suspension over alleged terror ties

UN agency saw $450 million worth of funding suspended after Israel alleged its employees participated in the Oct. 7 terror attack.

APRIL 24, 2024 3:00 PM CET
BY PIERRE EMMANUEL NGENDAKUMANA

The German government on Wednesday announced it will resume cooperating with the U.N. relief and works agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), less than three months after it temporarily withdrew its support for the organization following allegations that its employees were involved in the Oct. 7 terror attack.

Germany’s move comes after an independent review commissioned by the U.N. said Israel has yet to present evidence backing its allegations that a “significant number” of UNRWA employees are affiliated with terrorist organizations.

“By continuing our acute cooperation, we are supporting UNRWA’s vital and currently irreplaceable role in providing aid to the people of Gaza, as other international aid organizations are also currently dependent on UNRWA’s operational structures in Gaza,” Germany’s Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development said in a statement.

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Following the release of the report Monday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said, without providing evidence, that Hamas’ penetration of the U.N. agency runs so deep that “it is impossible to say where UNRWA ends and Hamas begins.”

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