The U.N. says it has fired nine staff members from its agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, after an internal investigation found they may have been involved in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack against Israel.
The U.N, secretary-general’s office announced the move in a brief statement to journalists Monday. It did not elaborate on the UNRWA staffers’ likely role in the attack. It said the nine included seven staffers who were fired previously over the claims.
Saying that things started in 1948 isn’t even the full proper context. Zionists had been settling in the region for decades prior, after all, for the explicit purpose of creating a Jewish ethnostate in the Levant, and you simply can’t do that without kicking out or subjugating all the people already living there.