Canada’s future funding for UNRWA still in limbo [Video]

OTTAWA – Canada hasn’t made a final decision on whether to resume funding to a United Nations aid organization in the Gaza Strip when its next scheduled payment is due in April.

Discussions continue on the subject, a senior government source said Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

That includes talks with other countries that also froze funding in January to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, known as UNRWA.

Sixteen countries, including a dozen of the top 15 donors to the organization, paused their payments after Israel alleged that a dozen of the aid organization’s workers participated in the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7.

That day, militants killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel and took another roughly 250 hostage, triggering a devastating war.

Authorities in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by Hamas, say more than 30,000 Palestinians have been …