Every day Israel grabs more Palestinian land – illegal land theft on the biggest level ever – Peter
The chief of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees denounced the Israeli authorities’ seizure of assets from its east Jerusalem compound on Monday, which police told AFP was part of a debt-collection operation.
“Israeli police accompanied by municipal officials forcibly entered the UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem”, Philippe Lazzarini said on X.
With trucks and forklifts, the authorities took “furniture, IT equipment and other property”, and the compound’s United Nations flag was replaced with an Israeli one, Lazzarini added.
Lazzarini has been declared persona non grata by Israeli authorities, who banned his agency from operating inside the country early this year.
Israeli police told AFP in a statement that the seizures were “carried out by the Jerusalem municipality as part of a debt-collection procedure”.
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