2023-10-09 20:28:02
The European Commission is not suspending financial aid to the Palestinians following all. Earlier in the day, the committee announced that it would do just that. This raised many questions. For example, the committee did not have the consent of the EU member states.
The commission would “immediately suspend all payments.” Aid would also be scrutinized, European Commissioner Oliver Varhely said earlier. The Hungarian wanted to be sure that European money does not end up in the wrong hands, such as with Hamas. Critics, including from other EU states, felt that the measures would affect innocent and desperate Palestinians.
Stopping payments raised questions, because the countries will only discuss this on Tuesday followingnoon. Shortly following Varhely’s statement, European Commissioner Janez Lenarcic also announced that emergency humanitarian aid would continue. Varhelyi had not made that distinction explicitly.
Many hours later, the committee stated that it had no intention of paying out money to the Palestinians in the near future. So no payment will be stopped. Emergency aid will certainly not be frozen, Varhelyi’s crisis response colleague had already made clear. And no investigation is being conducted into this humanitarian aid, as is the case into other European support.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell reacts satisfied. “The planned payments will not be suspended,” he wrote on the social medium X. Freezing aid would “punish the entire Palestinian people.” “That would have harmed the EU’s interests in the region and only further strengthened terrorists.”
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