A string of countries, including the United States, Britain and Italy, have paused funding to the aid agency, which has opened an investigation into several of its thousands of employees and severed ties with those people.
"Defunding UNRWA would be both disproportionate and dangerous," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell wrote in a blog post.
Borrell said neither the European Commission, nor the EU's two biggest economies, Germany or France, had decided to end their contributions.
In 2022, the EU was the third biggest donor to UNRWA, after the United States and Germany.
"The lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, not only in Gaza, are at stake," Borrell said.
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