The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has denounced what it called a double standard after eight countries, including the US, suspended their funding for UNRWA, Al Jazeera reports.

“Suspending UNRWA funding for and continuing support for Israel in the genocide of our people are collective punishments and miserable double standards,” it said in a statement.

Palestinian officials have warned that cutting off funding to the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees amid an intensifying humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip could have devastating consequences.