Conservative MPs have pressed the government not to restore funding to the UN agency for Palestiinian refugees that was paused in January after Israel alleged a number of its employees had been involved in the Hamas attack on October 7.
Theresa Villiers, the MP for Chipping Barnet, told the Telegraph that the UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency), which was set up to support Palestinian refugees in 1949, was “completely discredited”.
A new organisation was needed which was “not tainted by the failings of UNRWA,” she said.
According to the Mail, the agency has received £27 million from the UK since October 2022 and was due to get another £11 million by October this year.
