Britain’s newly elected Labour Party government has announced that it would resume funding to the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA and called on Israel to facilitate more aid to Gaza.
Britain was one of several countries to halt their funding to the UNRWA following accusations by Israel that some agency staff were involved in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war.
British foreign minister David Lammy informed parliament that he was satisfied by the agency’s measures, which would provide education, health, and aid to millions of Palestinians, to “ensure it meets the highest standards of neutrality”.
Consequently, the government would now provide 21 million pounds ($27.1 million) in new funding.
Lammy mentioned that malnutrition in Gaza was now so severe that mothers could not produce breast milk for their children and the rates of diarrhea were 40 times their normal rates and polio had been detected.
