The EU’s top diplomat said that cutting funds to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees would put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk. “Defunding UNRWA would be both disproportionate and dangerous,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell wrote in a blog post. “The wrongdoing of individuals should never lead to the collective punishment of an entire population.”

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