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Sweden resumes payments to UNRWA
Displaced Palestinians wait to receive United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aid, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 7, 2024. — Reuters pic

STOCKHOLM, March 9 — Sweden said today it would resume suspended payments to the UN refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA), with a grant of 200 million crowns (RM92 million).

Several countries, including the United States and Britain, paused their funding to UNRWA after accusations by Israel that a dozen of the agency's 13,000 staff in Gaza took part in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

The Swedish government said it had resumed payments after UNRWA agreed to strengthen internal controls and to extra checks on its employees, among other measures. — Reuters

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