The Netherlands is halting financial support for the UN’s aid organisation UNRWA following claims by Israel that 12 of its workers helped Hamas during the October 7 attacks, Dutch media said on Saturday.

A spokesman for aid minister Geoffrey van Leeuwen confirmed to the NRC and NOS that the decision to stop payments had been taken, following an earlier report by news agency ANP.

The US, Britain, Italy and Finland are among the other countries to have temporarily stopped providing aid to UNRWA pending an investigation into the claims. Van Leeuwen said on Friday that “the Netherlands will closely follow and weigh the outcome of the investigation when considering future Dutch financial contributions”.

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