JERUSALEM: The primary United Nations help company for Palestinians closed its headquarters in East Jerusalem after native Israeli residents set fireplace to areas on the fringe of the sprawling compound, the company mentioned.
Philippe Lazzarini, the top of the United Nations Reduction and Works Company for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), mentioned in a put up on the social media platform X that he had determined to shut the compound till correct safety was restored. He mentioned Thursday’s (Might 9) incident was the second in lower than every week.
“That is an outrageous growth. As soon as once more, the lives of UN employees have been at a severe threat,” he mentioned.
“It’s the accountability of the State of Israel as an occupying energy to make sure that United Nations personnel and amenities are protected always,” he mentioned.
UNRWA, set as much as take care of the Palestinian refugees who fled or have been compelled from their houses in the course of the 1948 conflict across the time of Israel’s creation, has lengthy been a goal of Israeli hostility.
Because the begin of the conflict with Gaza Israeli officers have known as repeatedly for the company to be shut down, accusing it of complicity with the militant motion Hamas in Gaza, a cost the United Nations strongly rejects.
Israel considers all of Jerusalem its indivisible capital, together with jap components it captured in a 1967 conflict, which Palestinians search as the longer term capital of an impartial state.
