The Netherlands halts financial support for UNRWA

The Netherlands is halting financial support for the UN’s aid organisation UNRWA following claims by Israel that 12 of its workers helped Hamas during the October 7 attacks, Dutch media said on Saturday. “We are extremely shocked. The claim is that UN money, our money, was used to carry out the October 7 attacks,” the minister is quoted as saying by NOS. The US, Britain, Italy and Finland are among the other countries to have temporarily stopped providing aid to...