Thirty days to save UNRWA: Following UN agency chief Lazzarini in his race against time
At the end of January, the accusation sent shockwaves: Israel claimed that 12 employees of UNRWA – a UN agency founded in 1949 – had participated, in one way or another, in the Hamas-led massacres of October 7, 2023, in which around 1,140 people were killed in Israel. The Israeli authorities have since failed to substantiate these claims. Several investigations are under way. But for the UN agency, a race against time had begun.
