Austria restores aid funds for Palestine, releasing $18.8M for 9 projects
GENEVA (AA) – Austria has announced that it is restoring aid funds for Palestine and releasing €17.5 million (approximately $18.8 million) for nine projects that had been frozen by Vienna after the events of October 7.
The funds will be used for nine projects totaling €17.5 million (approximately $18.8 million), the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“The aim of this review was to ensure that not a single cent of Austrian taxpayers’ money benefits Hamas or is used for anti-Israeli or ‘anti-Semitic propaganda,’” the ministry said.
Following the review, it was found that there were no indications that funds for Austrian projects had been misused.
However, cooperation with an NGO will be discontinued, the ministry said, without specifying the name of the organization.
The ministry accused the NGO of having “signed an anti-Israel declaration after October 7.”
“The NGO, which has basically done impeccable work, can therefore obviously no longer be a partner for us,” the statement said, adding that there will be no further cooperation with this organization that works for the uplift of the impoverished women of Gaza.
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