UK will resume funding to the UN Palestinian refugee agency
Britain's new Labour government said on Friday it would resume funding to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA in the first major change in how it will approach the Israel-Palestinian conflict after winning power earlier this month, Reuters reports.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy told MPs he had received reassurances about its neutrality in the wake of a review of alleged links between its staff and terror groups.
The UK was among several countries to suspend donations in January, after Israel alleged 12 UNRWA staff were involved in the October 2023 attacks by Hamas.
An internal UN investigation into those specific allegations is continuing.
But a separate UN review, published in April, found Israel had not provided evidence for its claims large numbers of UNRWA staff were members of terror groups.
Countries including Japan, Sweden, Finland, Canada have since resumed funding, although the agency's biggest donor, the United States, has not.
