OTTAWA — The United States ambassador to the United Nations implored Canada last month to keep funding the UN relief agency for Palestinians, International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen says.
In January, Canada was one of 16 countries to put a freeze on funding for the organization following allegations from Israel that a dozen of its workers participated in Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks on Israeli soil.
He also said the decision came because the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip is growing more dire by the day, and aid is urgently needed.The European Union, Australia, Sweden, Finland and Iceland have also restored at least some of their funding to UNRWA, but several of its biggest donors, including the U.S., have yet to do so.
"It's still not at the level in which we would like to see, and the level in which the need calls for," Hussen said. He said he raised the need for more entry points into Gaza with the Israeli ambassador to Canada, just as Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have raised the issue with other Israeli officials.
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