EU Commission suspends ‘all payments’ to Palestinians following Hamas attack

Queries about what the move entailed and whether it would hit all humanitarian aid to Palestinians were not immediately answered

EU Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi mad the announcement on EU payments on Monday (Franc Zhurda/AP/PA)

The European Union is suspending “all payments immediately” to the Palestinians, the EU Commission announced on Monday.

Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi said the bloc was making the move because of what he called the “scale of terror and brutality” of Hamas’s attacks against Israel.