The United Kingdom has joined other nations in halting funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza, known as UNRWA. On Friday, the agency opened an investigation and announced several employees were fired due to their alleged involvement in Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7. 

“The UK is appalled by allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the 7 October attack against Israel, a heinous act of terrorism that the UK Government has repeatedly condemned,”  the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said in a statement.