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2024-05-11 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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UNRWA shuts Jerusalem headquarters after Israelis allegedly set fire in compound
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[IsraelTimes] Head of UN agency for Palestinian refugees says facility to remain closed until ’proper security’ restored, accusing armed Israeli extremists of threatening and harassing staff.
The main United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
aid agency for Paleostinians temporarily closed its headquarters in East Jerusalem after Israeli locals set fire to areas at the edge of the sprawling compound, the agency said Thursday. That does send a message.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNWRA, said in a post on the social media platform X that he had decided to close the compound until "proper security" was restored.
He said Thursday’s incident was the second in less than a week.
"This is an outrageous development. Once again, the lives of UN staff were at a serious risk," he said.
Lazzarini described how "a crowd accompanied by gunnies were witnessed outside the compound chanting ’Burn down the United Nations’."
At the time, UNRWA and staff from other UN agencies were in the compound, which contains fuel stations for a fleet of UN cars.
"While there were no casualties among our staff, the fire caused extensive damage to the outdoor areas," Lazzarini said, adding that UNRWA staff had put out the fire themselves.
In footage shared with Lazzarini’s post, smoke can be seen rising near buildings at the edge of the compound while the sound of chanting in Hebrew can be heard.
UNRWA, set up to deal with the Paleostinian 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. Calls for it to be shuttered have risen since the agency reported that around a dozen staffers had taken part in the October 7 atrocities, citing Israeli intelligence. The revelation, accompanied by Israeli claims that thousands more staffers have ties to terror groups, re-energized protests against the agency as donors pulled back funding.
An independent review group of UNRWA, led by French former foreign minister Catherine Colonna, found some "neutrality-related issues" but said Israel had yet to provide evidence for its allegation of widespread links to Hamas
and other terror groups.
Lazzarini said Thursday’s attack came after two months of "Israeli faceless myrmidons staging protests outside the UNRWA compound," adding that one protest earlier this week "became violent mostly peaceful when demonstrators threw stones at UN staff and at the buildings of the compound."
"Our compound has been seriously vandalised and damaged. On several occasions, Israeli faceless myrmidons threatened our staff with guns," he charged.
"It is the responsibility of the State of Israel as an occupying power to ensure that United Nations personnel and facilities are protected at all times," he added.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli police.
The Paleostinian Authority condemned the arson attack and urged the international community to take "strict measures" against Israeli "militias."
Jordan also decried the attack, calling for measures to force Israel to "assume its responsibility as the occupying power in Jerusalem" and put an end to the harassment, according to the official news agency Petra.
Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
’s foreign ministry slammed the "systematic Israeli targeting of UNRWA," maintaining it aimed "to liquidate it and deprive millions of Paleostinians of its necessary services".
Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
also condemned the attack.
Created in 1949, the agency employs around 30,000 people in the Paleostinian territories, Jordan, Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
and Syria. It has coordinated nearly all aid to Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
during Israel’s war on Hamas. 
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