Trudeau was one of the first to participate in suspending funding for UNRWA (Reuters)

CBC quoted informed sources as saying, “The Canadian government has not yet seen any evidence to support Israel’s claim that employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were colluding with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).”

The Canadian channel revealed that the government led by Justin Trudeau suspended its funding for UNRWA, without seeing evidence to support Israel's allegations of collusion between the agency and Hamas.

Government sources told the channel that Israel has not yet shared evidence with Canada to prove its claim that 12 UNRWA employees participated in the Hamas attack on the Gaza Strip settlements on October 7.

She added that Israel has categorically refused to provide intelligence information that it says supports its claims, either to UNRWA or to the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services, the UN body in charge of the investigation.

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CBC said that earlier this week, Britain's Channel 4 obtained a copy of a file that the Israeli government shared with the United Kingdom government, which also suspended its funding for UNRWA.

Channel 4 reported that the file restates the Israeli government's longstanding complaints about UNRWA, and alleges the involvement of agency employees in the October 7, 2023 attack, but "does not provide any evidence to support Israel's allegations against the UN agency."

In turn, the British Sky News channel said, “Israeli intelligence documents make several allegations without evidence,” adding that even if these allegations are true, they do not prove UNRWA’s direct involvement in the Hamas attack.

French broadcaster France 24 also gained access to the Israeli report, which it compared to the notorious “dodgy dossier” of intelligence allegations about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that prompted the UK government to join the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The Canadian channel added that Israeli Ministry spokesman, Lior Hayat, responded to France 24's request to provide evidence of UNRWA's involvement, saying, "I do not think we need to give intelligence information. This would reveal sources in the operation."

This statement contradicts a previous tweet by Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, in which he pledged that Israel “will present all evidence that sheds light on UNRWA’s ties to terrorism and its harmful effects on regional stability.”

As of January 30, 18 countries and the European Union had decided to suspend funding for UNRWA, based on Israeli allegations of the participation of 12 agency employees in the Hamas attack on October 7.

These countries are: the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Italy, Britain, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, New Zealand, Iceland, Romania, Estonia, Sweden, in addition to the European Union, according to the United Nations.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war with American support on the Gaza Strip, which as of Wednesday left 27,708 martyrs and 67,147 injured, most of them children and women, according to the Palestinian authorities, and caused “massive destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” according to the Palestinian authorities. United nations.

Source: Western press