Israel has not provided evidence to support its accusation that a "significant" number of employees of the U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip are members of terrorist organizations, according to an independent review commissioned by the United Nations.
The review, released Monday and led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna, did not have a mandate to investigate Israel's more incendiary claim that a dozen employees of UNRWA took part in the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel. A separate investigation by the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services is leading the examination of those claims.
