Australia resumes funding to UNRWA

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced Friday that the government will restore its $6 million funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) and called on Israel to “allow more aid to Gaza now.” to give.”

“The best advice currently available from Australian government agencies and lawyers is that UNRWA is not a terrorist organization and that existing and additional safeguards adequately protect Australian taxpayers’ funds,” the Australian foreign minister said at a press conference.

Previously, several countries that had suspended their aid to UNRWA announced the return of their aid.

Following the allegations that the employees of this organization were involved in the attack on the occupied territories on October 7, a number of countries stopped their aid to this United Nations organization, provoked by the United States and the Zionist regime.

UNRWA, which provides health, education and other services, has faced a major crisis since the Israeli regime claimed that 12 of the agency’s 13,000 staff in Gaza were involved in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.