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The DOJ made the astonishing argument in a lawsuit filed in June by relatives of victims of the attack, based on reports and UNRWA’s own admission that some of the refugee agency’s employees supported or backed Hamas.

UNRWA admitted that nine of its employees may have participated in the attack; one UNRWA employee took the body of a murdered Israeli back to Gaza. The agency has also been accused of indoctrinating Palestinians generally.

However, UNRWA told the federal court in the Southern District of New York that its employees enjoy immunity under the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations of 1946, and that the United Nations has not waived immunity.