THE Austria announced today that lifts the freeze on aid to the Palestinianswhich he had announced two days after the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas in Israel as a report found no evidence that money was used to finance or promote terrorism.

After Austria announced on October 9 that it was suspending aid pending the completion of the report, its neighbor Germany also announced it would review aid to the Palestinians.

The EU also ordered its own review and announced last month that it had no evidence of money going to Hamas and that aid would continue.

“There is no indication that Austrian development projects funded by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) were misused to finance or promote terrorism or to spread anti-Semitic content,” the Austrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Nine Austrian-funded projects were reviewed and their total value is 17.5 million euros, the statement added.

It is not clear how many of those projects are in the West Bank, which is governed by the Western-backed Palestinian Authority under President Mahmoud Abbas, whose movement, Fatah, rivals Hamas.

The Austrian People’s Party, the largest partner in the governing coalition, recently turned the previously neutral country into one of the most pro-Israeli EU member states.

The change came during the previous coalition government of the Austrian People’s Party with the far-right Freedom Party, which was founded in 1956 and appointed a former SS officer as its first leader.

The far-right party has since repudiated its anti-Semitic past, but the country’s largest Jewish organization says it has not done enough and refuses to have contact with him.