(Dec. 20, 2024 / JNS) Sweden will stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the country’s aid minister, Benjamin Dousa, said on Friday.

Stockholm will find other conduits through which to send humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, Dousa told the TV4 network.

Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli hailed the move as a “courageous and critical decision by the Swedish government.”