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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Palestinian aid agency funding will stay frozen until reports received, says UK

Children with food bowls and hands through fence
Children queue up in Rafah for aid. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock

Countries including the US, UK, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and Australia will not take a decision on ending the suspension of funding to the Palestinian relief works agency Unrwa until they have seen two interim reports on the organisation, the UK Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell has said.

Mitchell’s remarks put back a decision on the funding for weeks, and runs counter to the decision by Sweden, Canada and the EU to resume funding the agency.

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