��Our funding for UNRWA remains on hold. We need to see real progress before that happens,” said John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council.

Norway, which chairs the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) for Palestine, urged all states to resume their contributions to UNRWA on Wednesday.

The EU also called on UNRWA donors to continue supporting the organization on Wednesday.

The appeals come after a UN-commissioned report by a panel of experts found UNRWA had failed to maintain “impartiality” in the Gaza Strip, but that Israel had not provided “evidence” of alleged links between some of its staff and “terrorist organizations.”

Kirby said the US “welcomes the findings of the report and strongly supports its recommendations,” but noted that President Joe Biden’s administration had legal constraints.

A spending bill passed in March bans US funding for UNRWA for one year.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said he was “very pleased” that “countries like Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Japan and Sweden have resumed their funding to UNRWA.”

“I would now like to appeal to those countries that still have their contributions to UNRWA frozen to resume their funding,” the Norwegian minister said in a statement.

The EU, meanwhile, appealed to UNRWA donors to continue supporting the organization in the wake of the UN report.

“I call on donors to support UNRWA, vital for Palestine refugees,” EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid Janez Lenarcic wrote on social media.

The EU is the largest donor to UNRWA, which Israel has accused of employing more than “400 terrorists” in the Gaza Strip.

On Monday, an independent panel of political analysis chaired by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna said UNRWA was “irreplaceable and indispensable.”

Famine threatens the Gaza Strip, where more than 34,000 people, mostly women and children, have been killed by Israeli forces since Israel began responding to Hamas rocket fire on October 7.

UNRWA employs more than 30,000 staff.

Some 5.9 million Palestinian refugees in the region — the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria — are registered with the UN agency.

UNRWA, created by the UN General Assembly in 1949, “is the backbone of humanitarian operations” in the Gaza Strip, its chief, Philippe Lazzarini, told the UN Security Council last week, denouncing an “insidious campaign” to end its operations.

“Dismantling UNRWA would have lasting repercussions,” including “exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and bringing starvation closer,” he warned.

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