The EU has put its development funding to the Palestinian territories under review after Hamas’s attack on Israel, the European commission said on Monday, following moves by Germany and Austria to suspend bilateral assistance.
The commission said the review of non-humanitarian aid “is to ensure that no EU funding indirectly enables any terrorist organisation to carry out attacks against Israel”, and that it would also assess if “support programmes to the Palestinian population . . . need to be adjusted”.
The EU’s executive arm added that no affected payments were “foreseen” to the Palestinian territories until the review was complete.
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