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UNRWA condemns ‘storming’ of schools in East Jerusalem

·May 12, 2025·1 min read

According to the agency, heavily armed personnel entered the schools in Shu’fat refugee camp on Thursday while classes were in session, forcing more than 550 Palestinian girls and boys – some as young as six – out of their classrooms. One UNRWA staff member was detained, and all of the...

Interview: Young Palestinians in East Jerusalem shut out of UNRWA training centre

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·February 20, 2025·6 min read

Agency chief Philippe Lazzarini said that Israeli forces and personnel from the Jerusalem local authority “forcefully entered” the Kalandia Training Centre and ordered its immediate evacuation. “At least 350 students and 30 staff were present and impacted. Tear gas and sound bombs were fired,” Mr. Lazzarini explained. The development comes...

UN independent experts spotlight ‘prima facie war crime’ in East Jerusalem

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·April 14, 2023·2 min read

“There has been an ongoing and unchecked tragedy: the forced eviction of Palestinians from their homes,” they said in a joint statement. “Israel’s transfer of its own population into the occupied territory confirms a deliberate intention to colonize the territory it occupies, a practice strictly prohibited by international humanitarian law,”...

Guterres strongly condemns attack at Jerusalem synagogue which left at least seven Israelis dead

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·January 28, 2023·1 min read

According to news reports, the incident happened in the Neve Yaakov district in the middle of the evening local time. Israeli police said the attacker, identified as a Palestinian from the Shu’fat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, had been “neutralized” at the scene. In a statement issued by his...