{"id":314324,"date":"2025-12-09T10:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=314324"},"modified":"2025-12-30T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:22:19","slug":"unrwa-commissioner-general-on-occupied-west-bank-storming-of-un-compound-in-east-jerusalem-by-israeli-police-sets-a-dangerous-precedent","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-on-occupied-west-bank-storming-of-un-compound-in-east-jerusalem-by-israeli-police-sets-a-dangerous-precedent\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA: Storming of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Compound in East Jerusalem by Israeli Police Sets a Dangerous Precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>9 December 2025<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"blue-with-border-left\"><em>From Philippe Lazzarini, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s storming of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA&#8217;s East Jerusalem compound by Israeli police and taking control &#8211; including by replacing the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ flag with the Israeli one &#8211; creates a dangerous precedent.<\/p>\n<p>Deliberately and blatantly disregarding obligations under the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Charter and the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ erodes international law.<\/p>\n<p>This should be a wake-up call.<\/p>\n<p>What happens today to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA can happen tomorrow to any other international organization or diplomatic mission, around the world.<\/p>\n<p>International law has come under increasing attack for too long. This must end.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related content:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"J48IR2GdHt\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/sg-statement-8dec25\/\">Statement by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Secretary-General on Israeli unauthorized entry into the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Sheikh Jarrah compound<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Statement by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Secretary-General on Israeli unauthorized entry into the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Sheikh Jarrah compound&#8221; &#8212; Question of Palestine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/sg-statement-8dec25\/embed\/#?secret=ZwsPE7ovAS#?secret=J48IR2GdHt\" data-secret=\"J48IR2GdHt\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"eiA9wxf7qs\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-8dec25\/\">Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA: Israeli Authorities Forcibly Enter Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Premises in East Jerusalem<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA: Israeli Authorities Forcibly Enter Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Premises in East Jerusalem&#8221; &#8212; Question of Palestine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-statement-8dec25\/embed\/#?secret=I1m4n1D4HE#?secret=eiA9wxf7qs\" data-secret=\"eiA9wxf7qs\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 9 December 2025 From Philippe Lazzarini, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)\u00a0 Yesterday&#8217;s storming of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA&#8217;s East Jerusalem compound by Israeli police and taking control &#8211; including by replacing the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ flag with the Israeli one &#8211; creates a dangerous precedent. Deliberately and blatantly disregarding obligations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-on-occupied-west-bank-storming-of-un-compound-in-east-jerusalem-by-israeli-police-sets-a-dangerous-precedent\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[6978,1338],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[6891,6251],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-314324","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-social-media-post","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-unrwa","document-subject-west-bank","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/314324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/314324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314367,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/314324\/revisions\/314367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=314324"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=314324"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=314324"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=314324"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=314324"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=314324"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=314324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}