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The European Commission announces it is clearing a 50-million-euro payment to the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, which was under review following Israeli claims its staff participated in Hamas's October 7 attack. Commission spokesman Eric Mamer tells reporters the funds would be "implemented through international partners, such as, for example, the Red Cross and the Red Crescent." SOUNDBITE
The United States is calling for "an urgent investigation" into the killing of Palestinian-American teenager Tawfiq Abdel Jabbar in the West Bank, US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel says. SOUNDBITE
Nablus (West Bank), Apr 8 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Alaa Badarneh) The US administration of President Joe Biden said on 07 April it will resume funding the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that was cut in 2019 by the previous administration of Donald Trump. FOOTAGE OF A SCHOOL IN THE ASKAR REFUGEE CAMP, NEAR THE CISJORDAN CITY OF NABLUS.
Vedant Patel, the US Department of State deputy spokesperson, says that Israel should let the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA into Gaza, after he was denied entry. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges the UN agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) to address allegations its staff were involved in attacking Israel, but distanced himself from calls for its end. "UNRWA has played and continues to play an absolutely indispensable role in trying to make sure that men, women and children who so desperately need assistance in Gaza actually get it," Blinken tells reporters. "That only underscores the importance of UNRWA tackling this as quickly as effectively and as thoroughly as possible," he says after the United States suspended funding. SOUNDBITE
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