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Israel has cancelled at short notice a planned meeting with Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the embattled UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees. Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Israel Katz said that he scrapped the talks scheduled for Wednesday and that Lazzarini should leave his job. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is under fire following accusations that 12 of its staffers in Gaza were involved in the October 7 attack on Israel. “UNRWA employees participated in the massacre of October 7,” Katz posted on X, formerly Twitter. “Lazzarini should draw c…

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