Norway called on international donors to resume payments to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) after a report found that Israel had yet to provide evidence that some UNRWA staff were linked to terrorist groups.

"I am very pleased that countries like Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Japan and Sweden have already reversed their decisions and resumed funding to UNRWA," Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said in a statement.

"I would now like to call on countries that have still frozen their contributions to UNRWA to resume funding," he said.

European commissioner for crisis management, Janez Lenarcic, also welcomed the report and called on the donors to support UNRWA.

The United States, Britain, Germany and others halted payments to UNRWA after Israel alleged some of the agency staff may have taken part in or helped the Hamas October 7 attacks.

In March, Israel also claimed that some 450 UNRWA workers in Gaza were "terrorists."

The review panel said that Israel had not previously expressed concern over any of the tens of thousands of names on the UNRWA staff lists it has regularly received since 2011. UNRWA employs roughly 32,000 people, 13,000 of them in Gaza.

The independent review headed by French diplomat Catherine Colonna identified "neutrality-related issues" included staff sharing biased political posts on social media and the use of a small number of textbooks with "problematic content" in some UNRWA schools.

The US — UNRWA's biggest donor, giving between $300-$400 million each year — has passed legislation locking in a pause on UNRWA funding until at least March 2025.