Sweden is stopping all aid to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). This is according to Minister for Development Cooperation Benjamin Dousa (M) for TV4 News.
The main reason is that it will be more difficult to receive aid after Israel banned all UNRWA activities in the country, which in practice is a ban on the organisation.
According to Mr Dousa, aid to Gaza will be increased at the same time, from €400 million to €800 million, but will be channelled through other actors. He cites the UN food programme WFP as an example.
In January this year, the government cut off aid to UNRWA following accusations of terror links by Israel. In March, the then Minister for Development Cooperation, Johan Forssell (M), announced that aid would resume after ‘written guarantees’ that money would not fall into the wrong hands.
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