Leumi Bank, a major Israeli bank, has notified the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that the accounts of Palestinian refugees have been frozen, Globes reported on Sunday.
Bank, Israel’s largestIsraeli media outlets said they had identified suspicious activity within the international organization’s account and expressed concern that transfers through the account could not be traced. I got it.. The bank also reportedly said it had not received a satisfactory explanation from UNRWA representatives, raising concerns that the funds were flowing to terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip. (Related article: ‘You’re full of shit!’: Condemns protester Brian Mast who called UN ‘stupid’ for establishing UNRWA)
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The incident follows a major scandal at UNRWA over the alleged participation of several Gaza employees in the October 7 attack on Israel. In the wake of the incident, countries including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy and Austria announced that they would temporarily cut funding to the organization pending investigations into the allegations. U.S. intelligence leaked an assessment to the Wall Street Journal estimating that about 10 percent of UNRWA has deep personal ties to two terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, leading to anointed with oil.
“UNRWA has been funded by people’s tax dollars for many years and has been governing Gaza at the behest of Hamas so that Hamas, which sees governance as a distraction, can focus on killing Israel’s Jews. Signing a deal with (i.e. Hamas) is so scandalous and shocking in its stupidity that it leaves me speechless,” one US congressman tweeted.
In the wake of the scandal, the UN appointed a review committee “to address allegations of serious violations” of UNRWA’s neutrality, the UN Secretary-General said in a statement. read To some extent.
The United Nations recently established a three-body Independent Review Group to investigate whether UNRWA is committed to “ensuring neutrality.”
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But some are unsure of the organization’s ability to launch an independent investigation and criticize the review committee as biased.
