Palestinian aid agency funding ban will not be lifted until report ready, UK says

US, UK and Australia among those to decide on UNRWA support only after report on Israel claims delivered, says Foreign Office

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Countries including the US, UK, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and Australia will not take a decision on ending the suspension of funding to the Palestinian relief works agency UNRWA until they have seen two interim reports on the organisation, the UK Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell says.

Mitchell’s remarks put back a decision on the funding for weeks, and runs counter to the decision by Sweden, Canada and the EU to resume funding the agency.