{"id":314795,"date":"2026-01-20T12:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=314795"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:27:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:27:38","slug":"statement-un-secretary-general-on-the-demolition-of-the-unrwa-sheikh-jarrah-compound","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/statement-un-secretary-general-on-the-demolition-of-the-unrwa-sheikh-jarrah-compound\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Secretary-General on the demolition of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Sheikh Jarrah compound"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Statements | Spokesperson for the Secretary-General<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Delivered by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Secretary-General condemns in the strongest terms\u00a0the Israeli authorities\u2019 actions to demolish the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Sheikh Jarrah compound.\u00a0 As he has repeatedly and unequivocally stated, including in his letter to the Prime Minister of Israel on 8 January 2026, the Sheikh Jarrah compound remains United Nations premises, and is inviolable and immune from any form of interference.<\/p>\n

The Secretary-General views as wholly unacceptable the continued escalatory actions against Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA, which are inconsistent with Israel\u2019s clear obligations under international law, including under the Charter of the United Nations and the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations.<\/p>\n

The Secretary-General urges the Government of Israel to immediately cease the demolition of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Sheikh Jarrah compound, and to return and restore the compound and other Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA premises to the United Nations without delay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Statements | Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Delivered by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General The Secretary-General condemns in the strongest terms\u00a0the Israeli authorities\u2019 actions to demolish the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Sheikh Jarrah compound.\u00a0 As he has repeatedly and unequivocally stated, including in his letter to the Prime Minister of Israel on 8 January 2026, the Sheikh […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1338],"document-source":[5352],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1741,1857,6891,6245],"entity":[],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-314795","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-statement","document-source-secretary-general","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-unrwa","document-subject-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/314795","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\/301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/314795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314841,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/314795\/revisions\/314841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=314795"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=314795"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=314795"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=314795"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=314795"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=314795"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=314795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}