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Jan 2024
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Countries pause UNRWA funding; another H...

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Six European countries joined America, Australia and Canada in pausing funding for the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, which will investigate several of its staff suspected of involvement in Hamas’s October 7th attacks on Israel.

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