The employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), who were threatened with dismissal, issued a statement to public opinion, in which they expressed their complete rejection of the accusations directed against them, according to ‘Russia Today.’
The statement said: ‘We express our deep astonishment at the decision that talks about dismissing us from our job and work at UNRWA based on a false claim from the Israeli occupation army alleging our participation in the events of October 7, 2023.’
The statement added: ‘In this regard, we would like to emphasize our supreme educational mission, for which we have always given the most beautiful years of our lives. We express our complete rejection of these groundless accusations and any decisions based on them…’
The statement called on the United Nations and the UNRWA administration to conduct an immediate and urgent investigation in this regard.
‘We call on our Palestinian people, their bodies, institutions and unions to stand in solidarity with our just cause until this unfair decision and these incorrect allegations disappear,’ the statemenht concluded.
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon