More than 190 UNRWA Staff are Hamas Operatives

At least 190 UNRWA staff are Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives

• At least 12 UNRWA staff participated in Hamas's October 7 attack
• Several countries have paused funding to the UN agency 

An Israeli intelligence dossier that prompted a cascade of countries to halt funds for a U.N. Palestinian aid agency includes allegations that some staff took part in abductions and killings during the October 7 raid that sparked the Gaza war.

The six-page dossier also alleges that some 190 UNRWA employees, including teachers, have doubled as Hamas or Islamic Jihad militants. It has names and pictures for 11 them.

One of the 11 is a school counsellor who assisted in the abduction of a woman during the Hamas infiltration in which 1,200 people were killed and 253 kidnapped.

Another, an UNRWA social worker, was involved in the transfer to Gaza of a slain Israeli soldier's corpse and of coordinating the movements of pick-up trucks used by the Hamas terrorist raiders and of weapons supplies used by the terrorists.

The UN aid agency whose staff are took part in the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel has said that Britain, the US and others have paused their funding. Pictured: The aftermath of the Hamas attack in October

Several countries have paused funding for the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) following revelations that 12 of UNRWA's 13,000 staff in Gaza were involved in the attack, which killed around 1,200 people and led to 250 others being kidnapped

The UN agency is thoroughly infiltrated and controlled by the terrorists

A third Palestinian in the dossier took part in a rampage in the Israeli border village Beeri, one tenth of whose residents were killed. A fourth participated in an attack on Reim, site both of an army base that was overrun and a rave where more than 360 revellers died.

The 190 mentioned in the dossier were 'hardened fighters, killers' 

Britain, the US, Canada and Australia have been joined by EU members including Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland and Austria in pausing the funding for UNRWA,

The European Commission said on Monday it would review whether it could continue to fund UNRWA in light of the allegations.

The damning accusations say the UNRWA employees did everything from a school counselor who  helped kidnap a woman, others who gave out ammunition and rocket-propelled grenades and another that took part in a kibbutz slaughter that killed 97 people

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency was set up for refugees of the 1948 war at Israel's founding in what had been British-ruled Palestine. It also tends to millions of the original refugees' descendants in Palestinian territories and abroad.

UNRWA has long perpetuated conflict by discouraging the resettlement of refugees, and on occasion agency staff took part in armed attacks against Israel.

From intelligence information, documents and identity cards seized during the course of the fighting in Gaza, it is now possible to flag around 190 Hamas and PIJ terrorist operatives who serve as UNRWA employees.

Hamas methodically and deliberately deployed its terrorist infrastructure in a wide range of U.N. facilities and assets, including schools.

Also in the list of 12 men are an UNRWA teacher who armed himself with an anti-tank rocket, another teacher who filmed a hostage, and the manager of a shop in an UNRWA school accused of opening a war-room for Islamic Jihad.

The terrorist organisations are cynically exploiting the residents of the Strip and the international organisations whose mission is to provide aid, and in doing so are causing de facto harm to residents of the Strip.

Hamas uses UNRWA's facilities to store weapons or launch attacks. 

UNRWA has long helped to perpetuate the 76-year-old Palestinian refugee crisis. 

The dossier was put together when officials tracked the movements of a dozen men in Israel on the day of the Hamas attack using their phone records and phone calls, the New York Times reports.

The US Department of State said it was 'extremely troubled' by the info and called for 'complete accountability' for those involved in the October 7 attacks.

An aerial view of the tents where Palestinians are staying in safety in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on January 27

Residents of Khan Yunis, protected by Israeli tanks, head towards Rafah camps near the Egyptian border, in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 27

Donors including Germany, Britain, Italy, Australia and Finland have followed the lead of the United States, which said on Friday it had paused additional funding to UNRWA.

Japan late on Sunday said it has also decided to suspend additional funding. 

The UK's Foreign Office also announced on Saturday it would halt future funding of the UNRWA. 

A statement from the Foreign Office said it was 'appalled' by the info in the dossier.