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The United States and the European Union announced Friday that they would cease payments to the Hamas-led Palestinian government but that aid would flow to Palestinians through the United Nations and other independent organizations. The foreign ministers may try to funnel payments to individual ministries not under Hamas control. It has been warning since Hamas won Palestinian elections earlier this year that the Palestinian Authority would lose that aid unless the Hamas-led government renounced violence, recognized Israel and accept past peace agreements.