{"id":202596,"date":"2003-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=202596"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:24:01","slug":"auto-insert-202596","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-202596\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA protests Israeli occupation of girls’ school – Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ news item"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ agency protests Israeli military’s occupation<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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of refugee camp girls’ school<\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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3 April <\/i><\/span>– <\/i><\/span>The main United Nations agency providing assistance to Palestine refugees today protested the Israeli military’s occupation of a girls’ school in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank, calling it a flagrant violation of international law. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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According to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA), Israeli military forces broke into and occupied the Agency school in the early morning on 2 April and proceeded to use the school as a detention centre for male residents of the camp between the ages of 15 and 40. <\/p><\/div>\n

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“The occupation of an Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA school and its use for military purposes is a violation of international legal norms, and is a discouraging step backwards in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA's continuing efforts to secure humanitarian access in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” the Agency’s Commissioner-General, Peter Hansen, said. “I call on the Israeli authorities to leave Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA's school and to allow Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA access to its other facilities in Tulkarem camp, including a clinic, so that essential services can be restored to the refugees.” <\/p><\/div>\n

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The Agency said the occupation was not the first such abuse of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA's humanitarian installations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, citing the Israeli military’s repeated use last year of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA schools as detention centres, and in some cases, the use of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA installations as bases from which they launched military operations. In all cases, the Agency protested to the Israeli authorities but received no response. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA said it had recently redoubled efforts to liaise with the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) in the hope that the Israeli military would respect the right of the Agency to carry out its humanitarian operations without interference and restrictions, a right conferred on Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA by the 1946 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Convention on Privileges and Immunities, and by an agreement reached between Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA and the Government of Israel in 1967.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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