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The head of the UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, is cautiously optimistic that the organization can count on international support again. “I have the feeling that a number of countries that have decided to suspend their financial support are in the process of reviewing their position,” Lazzarini told Swiss broadcaster RTS on Saturday. He heads the UN Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Most recently, Israeli allegations that individual employees of the UN organization could have been involved in the massacre by the Islamist Hamas on October 7 led…