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Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of an UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, September 12, 2023
ISRAEL has never expressed concern about anyone employed by the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA despite being provided with staff lists since 2011, a UN panel reported on Monday night.
The revelation undermines Israel’s claim that governments and the UN should stop working with UNRWA because it has supposedly been infiltrated by Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
The panel chaired by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna was appointed to look at the aid agency’s neutrality, after Israel accused 12 of its 30,000 employees of having participated in the October 7 attack.
Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
