The European Commission said on Friday it disbursed €16 million ($17.3 million) to the embattled UN agency for Palestinians refugees (UNRWA) to go toward health and educational services.
UNRWA hit the headlines in January when Israel claimed that 12 of its employees were involved in the Hamas massacres on October 7 and that the organization as a whole had been infiltrated by the Islamist group. UNRWA is the main humanitarian provider in Gaza.
Major donors like Germany temporarily withheld funding as a result.
An audit report by independent experts presented in New York last month concluded that UNRWA had established a number of "robust" mechanisms to ensure that the principle of neutrality was upheld, but that there was still room for improvement.
The panel of experts also stated that Israel had never provided evidence for some of its most serious allegations.
The European Commission, which serves as the EU's executive arm, said it was also sending €25 million to the Palestinian Authority to go toward the salaries and pensions for Palestinian civil servants in the West Bank.
This is the second instalment to be disbursed to the Palestinian Authority as part of a €118.4 million aid package agreed in December 2023. The first instalment of €25 million was paid out in March.