Israel Begins Evicting UN Training Centre for Palestinians
Israeli forces closed roads and expelled UNRWA staff as officials said the takeover will convert the site into a new community complex.
- On Tuesday, Israeli police raided the Qalandia Training Centre in East Jerusalem, expelling all United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees staff and taking control of the facility to enforce legislation banning the agency from Israeli territory.
- Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir participated in the operation, asserting there is "no place for the agency in Jerusalem and Israel," while officials claim the site belongs to the Jewish National Fund and will become a community complex.
- The training centre, established in 1952, provides vocational training to around 340 Palestinians annually while serving 16,000 refugees across the West Bank; the raid occurred one day after 25 diplomatic missions visited the site.
- Palestinian officials condemned the takeover as an "official determination to challenge the status and immunities of the United Nations," while lawyer Mohammad Dahleh described the action as a direct breach of international law.
- This operation follows a similar raid on UNRWA's Sheikh Jarrah headquarters months ago, marking a broader campaign to dismantle the organization that Israel justifies by citing alleged security concerns involving the agency.
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Israel begins evicting UN training centre for Palestinians
It follows repeated warnings by UNRWA that Israeli authorities were threatening its Qalandia training centre, located between the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Kafr Aqab and the Qalandia refugee camp. The centre was established in 1952 and offers vocational training to around 340 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank every year, according to UNRWA. "In accordance with my directive and following the law we passed, today the evacuation of the…
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