At the end of April, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Latvia would resume funding to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, which provides assistance to Palestinian refugees in various countries. This caused a storm on the social network X (previously known as Twitter), where many users reacted to the news by claiming that Latvia had decided to fund Hamas terrorists. Is this really the case? This is an explainer on what is UNRWA, why a number of countries froze its funding and why some have restored it.
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