Over 100 United Nations member states pledge support for UNRWA, and other news.

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees appears to have weathered a crisis stemming from Israeli accusations that it employed people affiliated with Hamas: On Friday, 118 United Nations member states publicly declared support for the beleaguered agency. The U.N. secretary general, António Guterres, said the agency, known as UNRWA, had provided indispensable aid to people in Gaza, which has been devastated by more than nine months of war. “There is no alternative to UNRWA,” he said.

The Israeli military acknowledged wide-ranging failures that allowed Hamas-led militants to commit a massacre in the Israeli border village of Be’eri during the Oct. 7 attacks. The findings were part of a broader military inquiry into the attack that also exonerated a general who authorized a tank to fire on a house in Be’eri where Hamas fighters were holding hostages.