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UNRWA and October 7
UNRWA is the UN’s Gaza refugee agency. Israel has presented material on staff involvement in October 7. The issue is part of the wider debate on aid.
UNRWA is not the Red Cross. It is a separate UN refugee agency built around Gaza and the 1948 file. After October 7 Israel published names and intelligence on staff members it says took part in the attack.
Donors froze and unfroze funding. The film is not an UNRWA documentary. The topic matters for how aid moves from a truck through Kerem Shalom to a sack in a kitchen.
A related explainer on aid diversion covers UNRWA’s own 2009 freeze after a theft attributed to Hamas.