Israel begins evicting UN training centre for Palestinians
Israeli officials said the site will be converted into a new educational and community complex after more than 50 security personnel entered the compound.
- 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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Kafr’Aqab. Israeli forces took control yesterday of a vocational training centre run by the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees in East Jerusalem (Unrwa), with two deaths, reported the Israeli Minister of National Security, the ultra-rightist Itamar Ben-Gvir. In this regard, the Secretary General of the world body, António Guterres, condemned the act and demanded the immediate withdrawal of the troops.
Israel seizes UN training centre for Palestinian teens in East Jerusalem
Israel seizes UN training centre for Palestinian teens in East Jerusalem Submitted by Fayha Shalash on Wed, 08/26/2026 - 09:18 Israeli forces evacuate dozens of staff and raise the Israeli flag at the facility as Unrwa condemns the takeover as a breach of international law Israeli forces storm Unrwa-run Qalandiya Vocational Training Institute in Kafr Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem, on 25 August 2026 (Salman Mohsen Alkhatib/ZUMA Press Wire v…
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, denounced on Tuesday an incursion by Israeli forces into a training center of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in a suburb of East Jerusalem.
Israeli forces on Tuesday took control of a vocational training center run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in an eastern Jerusalem suburb.
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