Israel escalates its criticism of a UN agency in Gaza. It says 450 of its workers are militants

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Israel escalates its criticism of a UN agency in Gaza. It says 450 of its workers are militants

BY TIA GOLDENBERG AND RAVI NESSMAN
Updated 3:43 PM EST, March 4, 2024

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel ramped up its criticism of the embattled U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees Monday, saying 450 of its employees were members of militant groups in the Gaza Strip, though it provided no evidence to back up its accusation.

Major international funders have withheld hundreds of millions of dollars from the agency, known as UNRWA, since Israel accused 12 of its employees of participating in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel that killed 1,200 people and left about 250 others held hostage in Gaza, according to Israeli authorities.

The U.N. envoy focusing on sexual violence in conflict, Pramila Patten, said Monday there were “reasonable grounds” to believe Hamas committed rape, “sexualized torture,” and other cruel and inhuman treatment of women during the attack.

The attack sparked an Israeli invasion of the enclave of 2.3 million people that Gaza’s Health Ministry says has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians. Aid groups say the fighting has displaced most of the territory’s population and sparked a humanitarian catastrophe.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-03-04-2024-a93b77e949d3bdc459311fd84d0f90ba

[Aussie105]

1. Israeli paranoia setting in?

Or just making up stuff to justify their actions?

The UN employs local Palestinians for their aid work, obviously those people are going to bring their politics and beliefs with them to work.

For Israel to say we 'know' 450 of them are Hamas sympathisers or militants, is one step too far for me.
Your intelligence isn't that good.
Name names, show proof. Otherwise it is just a made up number.

How many more Palestinians need to die, or be displaced and starved, before Israel proves they are not to be messed with?

How many more Palestinians need to die, or be displaced and starved, before the rest of the world tells Bibi he needs to back off?

[The Mouth]

2. No more 'need' to die

All Hamas has to do is release all hostages alive.

They are the ones continuing this