Posting on social media, Commissioner-Basic Philippe Lazzarini stated “Israeli residents set hearth twice to the perimeter” on Thursday night. UNRWA personnel and workers from different UN companies have been contained in the compound on the time.
“Our director with the assistance of different workers needed to put out the fireplace themselves because it took the Israeli hearth extinguishers and police some time earlier than they turned up,” he stated.
This marked “the second appalling incident in lower than every week” following the same violent protest on Tuesday.
‘An outrageous growth’
Whereas there have been no casualties amongst UNRWA workers, the fireplace brought on intensive harm to the outside areas, he stated, noting {that a} petrol and diesel station is on the grounds to service the company’s fleet of vehicles.
A crowd accompanied by armed males have been witnessed exterior the compound chanting “burn down the United Nations,” he added.
“That is an outrageous growth,” he stated. “As soon as once more, the lives of UN workers have been at critical threat.”
Protest turned violent
Mr. Lazzarini stated he has taken the choice to shut down the compound “till correct safety is restored”.
Israeli extremists have been staging protests exterior the UNRWA compound in Jerusalem over the previous two months “known as by an elected member of the Jerusalem municipality.”
He famous that Tuesday’s protest had turned violent when demonstrators threw stones at UN workers and on the buildings, “beneath the watch of the Israeli police.”
Harassment, intimidation and vandalism
“Over the previous months, UN workers have commonly been subjected to harassment and intimidation. Our compound has been critically vandalized and broken. On a number of events, Israeli extremists threatened our workers with weapons,” he stated.
The UNRWA chief harassed that it’s the accountability of Israel because the occupying energy to make sure that UN personnel and amenities are protected always.
“I name on all those that have affect to place an finish to those assaults and maintain all these accountable accountable,” he stated. “The perpetrators of those assaults have to be investigated and people accountable have to be held accountable. Something much less will set a brand new harmful customary.”
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