JERUSALEM: The main United Nations aid agency for Palestinians closed its headquarters in East Jerusalem after local Israeli residents set fire to areas at the edge of the sprawling compound, the agency said.
Right-wing Israel i protesters gather with flags and banners outside the West Bank field office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Jerusalem on Mar 20, 2024 during a demonstration calling for the cessation of its operations following Israel 's accusations that several of UNRWA'S roughly 13,000 Gaza employees were involved in the Oct 7, 2023 attacks carried out by Palestinian militants.
"This is an outrageous development. Once again, the lives of UN staff were at a serious risk," he said. UNRWA, set up to deal with the Palestinian refugees who fled or were forced from their homes during the 1948 war around the time of Israel's creation, has long been a target of Israeli hostility.Israel considers all of Jerusalem its indivisible capital, including eastern parts it captured in a 1967 war, which Palestinians seek as the future capital of an independent state.Lazzarini said staff were present at the time of the incident but there were no casualties.
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