UNRWA Hamas attack claims: UK becomes latest country to pause funding for agency

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"The UK is appalled by allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the 7 October attack against Israel, a heinous act of terrorism that the UK Government has repeatedly condemned," the UK Foreign Office said in a statement.

"The UK is temporarily pausing any future funding of UNWRA whilst we review these concerning allegations," it added.

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12 out of 13000 UNRWA staff in Gaza are being accused of in some way being involved with Hamas. The UK immediately withdraws all funding.

Why do they not do the same when Israeli soldiers commit war crimes?

Is the UK funding Israel? I wasn't aware of that.

I'm not sure if there's direct funding but we certainly continue to support them militarily and sell them weapons via our arms companies

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According to Campaign Against Arms Trade, between 2016 and 2020, the UK issued single individual export licences for arms sales to Israel to a value of £400m.

Between 2018 and 2020 the British Ministry of Defence bought £46m worth of military equipment from Elbit

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Cleverly said that the UK-Israel trade relationship was worth about £7bn, with more than 400 Israeli tech firms operating in the UK.

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