The "CBC" channel quoted informed sources as saying that "the Canadian government has not yet seen any evidence supporting Israel's claim that employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were complicit with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)."

The Canadian channel revealed that the government led by Justin Trudeau suspended its funding to UNRWA, without seeing evidence supporting Israel's allegations of collusion between the agency and Hamas.

Government sources informed the channel that Israel has not yet shared evidence with Canada to prove its claim that 12 UNRWA employees participated in Hamas' attack on settlements around Gaza on October 7 last year.

It added that Israel categorically refused to provide the intelligence information it says supports its claims, either to UNRWA or to the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services, the UN body responsible for investigation.

"CBC" said that the British Channel 4 earlier this week obtained a copy of a file shared by the Israeli government with the UK government, which also suspended its funding to UNRWA.

Channel 4 said the file restates the Israeli government's old complaints about UNRWA and alleges the agency’s employees' involvement in the October 7, 2023 attack, but it "does not provide any evidence to support Israel's allegations against the UN agency."

Meanwhile, the British Sky News channel said that "Israeli intelligence documents raise several claims without evidence," adding that even if those claims were true, they do not prove UNRWA's direct involvement in the Hamas attack.

French broadcasting authority "France 24" managed to access the Israeli report, which it compared to the infamous "dodgy dossier" of intelligence allegations about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction that pushed the UK government to join the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The Canadian channel added that the spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Lior Haiat, responded to "France 24"’s request for evidence of UNRWA’s involvement by saying, "I do not think we need to provide intelligence information. This would reveal sources in the operation."

This statement contradicts a previous tweet by Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz, in which he pledged that Israel "will provide all the evidence highlighting UNRWA’s connections to terrorism and its harmful effects on regional stability."

As of last January 30, 17 countries and the European Union decided to suspend UNRWA funding, based on Israeli allegations of the participation of 12 agency employees in the Hamas attack on October 7 last year.

These countries are: the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Italy, Britain, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Austria, New Zealand, Iceland, Romania, Estonia, and Sweden, in addition to the European Union, according to the United Nations.