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It comes after Israeli authorities \u201cstormed and demolished\u201d buildings in the compound last week, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAllowing this unprecedented destruction is the latest attack on the UN in the ongoing attempt to dismantle the status of Palestine Refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and erase their history,\u201d Mr. Lazzarini said.<\/p>\n
In a short statement, the senior UN official added that there were \u201cno limits to the defiance of the United Nations\u201d and international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.<\/p>\n
Last Tuesday\u2019s move by Israeli authorities to send bulldozers into the Sheikh Jarrah compound where they tore down UNRWA structures prompted swift condemnation from senior UN officials including Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T\u00fcrk.<\/p>\n
Ahead of that dramatic development, on 14 January, Israeli forces entered an UNRWA health centre in East Jerusalem and ordered it to close. The agency reported that its workers were \u201cterrified\u201d and that the deteriorating situation was a direct result of legislation passed by the Israeli parliament in December, stepping up existing anti-UNRWA laws adopted in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
UNRWA premises have also been targeted by arsonists amid a \u201clarge-scale disinformation campaign\u201d against it by Israel, the agency\u2019s Commissioner-General has previously maintained.<\/p>\n
This was despite a ruling last October by the UN\u2019s top court, the International Court of Justice, which restated that Israel was obliged \u201cto facilitate UNRWA\u2019s operations, not hinder or prevent them. The court also stressed that Israel has no jurisdiction over East Jerusalem,\u201d Mr. Lazzarini noted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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