US pauses funding to UNRWA amid allegations of staff role in Oct 7 attacks The UN agency for Palestinian refugees fired a number of its staffers in Gaza suspected of taking part in the October 7 attack by Hamas and other militants on southern Israel, its director said Friday. The move prompted the United States, the agency's biggest donor, to temporarily halt its funding. By doing so, “the US threatens to jeopardise humanitarian aid coming into Gaza Strip,” says FRANCE 24 correspondent Fraser Jackson, reporting from Washington DC.