EU suspends ‘all payments’ to Palestinian authorities

by nhatthongg

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  1. >The European Commission has “immediately” suspended all payments made to the Palestinian authorities under the common EU budget, Olivér Várhelyi, the European Commissioner for enlargement and neighbourhood policy, has announced in reaction to the military attack launched by Hamas against Israel.
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    >“As the biggest donor of the Palestinians, the European Commission is putting its full development portfolio under review, worth a total of EUR 691 (million),” Várhelyi said on X, formerly Twitter.
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    >The move will affect all payments and all projects, he said. Additionally, all new budget allocations, including for 2023, will be postponed “until further notice,” the Commissioner added.
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    >“The foundations for peace, tolerance and co-existence must now be addressed. Incitement to hatred, violence and glorification of terror have poisoned the minds of too many,” Várhelyi said. “We need action and we need it now.”
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    >The EU has traditionally been a major provider of humanitarian and financial aid to the West Bank, which is partially governed by the Palestinian Authority and President Mahmoud Abbas. This support goes into essential services, such as healthcare, social assistance, salaries of civil servants and development projects in the field of “state-building.” For Gaza, the money is channelled through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

  2. No other choice when Hamas is massacring innocent non-combatant EU nationals.

  3. Palestinian authority is Fatah, not Hamas, and the two have been in conflict since 2006.

  4. Why do we pay all these regimes so they can make weapons and global coercion? Oil and gas etc to Russia, aid or whatever this is to Palestine, manufacturing to China who bankrolls Russia, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar, Venezuela etc?

  5. Are there any plans to get the hostages back?

    From what I’ve seen, they’re mostly German and French?

  6. *Opening a map of Gaza, Israel and Palestine*

    Why are we punishing the Palestinians of the West Bank for something the Hamas of Gaza did?

  7. “IDF gunfight with Lebanon infiltrators”

    is Lebanon the world’s biggest open air prison too?

  8. Good, as they should.

    Hamas killed citizens not only from Israel but also American, France, Irish, Thai, British, Canadian and more. They are savages.

    They killed and raped a German woman who literally went to a party that is promoting peace for both sides. They also killed a lot more in this party.

    Hamas are animals.

  9. Why was the EU giving them so much money in the first place?

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