The United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA), employed at least 10 Hamas members, among whom were a school counselor who worked with his son to kidnap an Israeli woman and a social worker who distributed ammunition, US intelligence suggests, according to a report  in the New York Times.

As per the report, a dossier, originating in Israeli intelligence and found credible enough by American officials to warrant action, has been circulated among Western officials. The dossier charges that 12 employees of UNRWA, the UN agency tasked with providing aid to Palestinians and overseeing a majority of the schooling as well as other social services in Gaza, have actively participated in Hamas’s war with Israel.

According to the report, ten of them were described as “Hamas members,” and another is believed to be affiliated with Islamic Jihad, another Islamic terrorist group active in Gaza.

The intelligence was reportedly gathered in part through monitoring of the employees’ cell phones by Israeli intelligence services: some discussed their involvement in the attack, while three others received text messages directing them to a particular location while the attack was ongoing, and one was told to bring rocket-propelled grenades storied in his home.

In response to the intelligence, the US, Canada, Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Finland have suspended aid to the agency.

Notably, The US returned to being one of the organization’s largest funders in 2021 when US President Joe Biden restored $200m in funding that the Donald Trump administration had suspended in 2018.