Austria suspends financial aid to Palestine
The Austrian government announced that it has suspended financial aid worth a total of €19 million to the Palestinian administration in the wake of the conflict between Palestine and Israel.
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said in a statement to O1 radio: “We are suspending all Austrian development payments for now.” he said.
Stating that Vienna expects the situation in Israel to get worse before it gets better, Schallenberg noted that the situation in the region is highly variable.
Schallenberg announced that they suspended financial aid worth a total of 19 million euros to Palestine, as conflicts between Hamas and Israel escalated.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Hamas’s military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, launched a comprehensive operation against Israel on the morning of October 7, dubbed the “Aqsa Flood.”
As thousands of rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel, Palestinian armed groups attacked and seized the Beit Hanun-Erez border gate on the Gaza-Israel border. Armed groups then entered settlements inside Israel from here and the Israeli army launched an attack on the Gaza Strip with dozens of fighter jets.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that 493 people were killed and 2,751 injured in Israel’s attacks on Gaza. 15 Palestinians lost their lives as a result of fire opened by Israeli soldiers in several cities in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli press claimed that so far more than 700 Israelis had been killed and 2,315 people wounded in the attacks. (AA)
Source: Sozcu
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