Swedish officials announced that they will no longer provide funding to UNRWA, which is carrying out aid work in Palestine where the genocide is ongoing, and that they took this decision in response to the Israeli ban that will start in January and that they will continue their aid through other channels.
Swedish Aid Minister Benjamin Dousa announced that they would cut off aid to the UN Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which carries out aid work in Palestine, where tens of thousands of innocent civilians have died, and said that they would provide aid to Gaza through other channels.
As Israel prepares to ban UNRWA’s activities in the country from the end of January, Minister Dousa told Sweden’s TV4 that the decision was taken in response to the ban and added that their aid would increase.
According to TRT World. “There are several other organizations in Gaza, I have just been there and met several of them,” the Nordic country’s aid minister, Benjamin Dousa, said, naming the UN World Food Programme as one potential recipient. The United Nations General Assembly threw its support behind UNRWA this month, demanding that Israel respect the agency’s mandate and “enable its operations to proceed without impediment or restriction”.
