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Independent review of UNRWA's neutrality is published
22 April 2024
An independent review led by Catherine Colonna found that UNRWA had significant mechanisms to ensure neutrality, probably more than other UN agencies, along with problems in applying them, and that Israel had not provided evidence for its claim that many UNRWA staff belong to terrorist organisations.
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The review states that Israel had made public claims that many UNRWA employees belong to terrorist organisations, and had yet to provide supporting evidence.
However, Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of this.
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NPR reports that the review found significant neutrality mechanisms at UNRWA, probably more than at other UN agencies, but also problems including inadequate investigation of breaches, political expression by some staff and textbooks with problematic content.
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The review did not examine the separate allegation that about a dozen employees took part in the 7 October attack, which another UN investigation was handling.
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