CAMPAIGNERS welcomed Britain’s restoration of funding to the the UN’s Palestinian relief agency UNRWA today, but urged the government to go a step further and halt arms sales today.

In January, the Foreign Office paused funding to the main source of aid to Gaza, over unproven claims that its staff had links to Hamas. 

Former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna led an independent review which concluded the agency had in place “a significant number of mechanisms and procedures to ensure compliance with the humanitarian principle of neutrality.”