Sky News host Rowan Dean has slammed the teals for signing a letter calling for Australia to re-instate funding to UNRWA.

Extra aid will be sent to Gaza as Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong lifted a funding freeze on the main UN relief agency.

Ms Wong assured Australians of safeguards implemented to ensure taxpayer-funded relief was used appropriately despite allegations 12 UNRWA staffers were involved in the October 7 terrorist attacks.

“Supposedly compassionate and caring women all sitting on the cross benches representing some of the wokest electorates in Australia,” Mr Dean said.

“Urging your tax dollars to be handed over by the millions to UNRWA, an organisation with proven links to Hamas and the perpetrators of the rapes, murders and defiling of women and children and the barbaric atrocities of October 7.”

Mr Dean also criticised the Foreign Minister for being “reckless and lazy”.