"Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA's commissioner general, said the operation was a wake-up call for the world. This constitutes an unprecedented attack against a United Nations agency and its premises, Lazzarini wrote on X. What happens today to UNRWA will happen tomorrow to any other international organization or diplomatic mission anywhere around the world. Lazzarini vehemently rejected Israel's justification for seizing the land."
"UNRWA was created by the UN General Assembly in 1949 to provide basic support, including food, healthcare and education, to tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees. More than 750,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes and land leading up to Israel's creation in 1948, which Palestinians remember as the Nakba, or catastrophe. UNRWA's operations are spread across Palestinian territory, including in East"
Israeli forces, accompanied by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, stormed and bulldozed the UNRWA headquarters compound in Sheikh Jarrah, occupied East Jerusalem, demolishing structures and confiscating equipment. The Israeli government invoked a 2024 law banning UNRWA and justified the seizure of the land. UNRWA leadership and Palestinian officials condemned the operation, calling it an unprecedented attack and a blatant breach of international law, noting the agency has leased the land from Jordan since 1952. UNRWA provides food, healthcare and education to tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees, many displaced during the 1948 Nakba.
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