A file photo of Tobias Ellwood. —Reuters
A file photo of Tobias Ellwood. —Reuters

Tobias Ellwood, a member of the UK parliament, has told Al Jazeera that cutting funding for “an organisation as important as UNRWA” in response to Israeli allegations against 12 out of 13,000 local participants of its programmes was just going “too far”.

“I am pleased to confirm that Britain hasn’t yet cut any funding. It is to pause funding in a couple of months time, by which time, we hope to have resolved this,” he said from London.

Ellwood also he “very much” welcomed the UN chief’s ordering of an investigation into the case.

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