{"id":334938,"date":"2026-01-20T16:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=334938"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:29:14","slug":"israeli-forces-demolish-unrwa-buildings-in-unprecedented-attack","status":"publish","type":"to4_article_post","link":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/israeli-forces-demolish-unrwa-buildings-in-unprecedented-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Forces Demolish UNRWA Buildings in \u201cUnprecedented Attack\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Tuesday, Israeli forces stormed the headquarters of the UN agency dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance for Palestinians, demolishing buildings in an attack that the agency condemned as \u201cunprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armed with bulldozers and tear gas, the Israeli military forcefully entered the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) office in Sheikh Jarrah, in East Jerusalem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They targeted at least two<\/a> UNRWA buildings for demolition, and fired tear gas<\/a> in a vocational school serving young refugees in Qalandia, on the outskirts of Jerusalem; the Palestinian Authority said that Israeli forces hit a 15-year-old boy<\/a> in the eye with a rubber bullet.<\/p>

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