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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

MYSTERIOUS: Uk to pause funding for key un aid agency for palestinian refugees - What They Never Told You

Palestinians move from Khan Younis to Rafah, southern Gaza
Palestinians refugees moving from Khan Younis to Rafah, southern Gaza. Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA

The decision by the US, UK and other western nations to freeze ­funding for the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees will significantly worsen the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians have warned.

Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Finland joined the United States, Australia and Canada in pausing funding after UNRWA, the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine, revealed an investigation had been launched into 12 members of staff who allegedly took part in the 7 October attack led by Hamas that killed 1,140 people.

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