The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, known as Unrwa, acknowledged that Fateh al-Sharif was placed on leave without pay in March after it launched an investigation into his political activities.

A U.N. human rights group confirmed Hamas’ leader in Lebanon, who was recently killed by Israeli strikes, was their employee. Fateh Sherif was killed Monday in an airstrike on the al-Bass refugee camp in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre,

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees says a Hamas top commander in Lebanon who was killed in an Israeli strike was a U.N. employee placed on administrative leave