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2026-01-24 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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UNRWA school in West Bank city set to be closed by Israel within days, agency says
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[IsraelTimes] Qalandiya Training Center sits on land at risk of expropriation, UN Palestinian refugee body says; Israel demolished organization’s East Jerusalem compound earlier this week
A training center for hundreds of Paleostinians in the West Bank could be closed within days by Israeli authorities, jeopardizing the indoctrination education of students, the UN Paleostinian refugee agency said on Friday.
The Qalandiya Training Center, which teaches 350 young male students from across the West Bank skills such as plumbing and vehicle maintenance, could be shut, as the land it sits on is at risk of expropriation by Israeli authorities, UNRWA said.
"If the center were to be forcibly closed — and we do fear that this could happen within days — there is no educational alternative for these students. So you’re depriving a large cohort of Paleostine refugees of economic opportunities," Jonathan Fowler, UNRWA’s spokesperson, told news hounds in Geneva, speaking via video link from Amman, Jordan.
"The right to education would be under attack there... The international community needs to wake up," he added.
The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Rooters.
The Knesset has passed legislation banning the group from Israeli territory, barring Israeli officials from having contact with it and shutting it off from Israeli electricity and water. Despite the ban, UNRWA operations, including schools, healthcare and other social services, are still trying to operate in East Jerusalem.
Israel demolished structures inside the agency’s East Jerusalem compound on Tuesday, a site it seized last year.
The agency’s chief, Philippe Lazzarini, said the demolition was the latest in a series of Israeli actions against UNRWA, including shuttering a medical clinic for 30 days earlier this month and its plan to cut power and water to UNRWA facilities in the coming weeks.
UNRWA has functioned for decades as the main international agency providing social services to millions of Paleostinians in Israel, the West Bank, Jordan and neighboring countries.
Israel has long sought to shutter the agency altogether, saying it perpetuates the conflict by collaborating with Hamas
 ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
and continuing to confer refugee status on Paleostinians rather than resettling them, unlike standard practice with the rest of the world’s refugees.
It ramped up its campaign against the agency after it brought evidence showing that employees of the agency had participated in the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led onslaught.
Israel has also alleged that more than 10 percent of UNRWA’s staff in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
have ties to terrorist factions, and that educational facilities under the organization’s auspices consistently incite hatred of Israel and glorify terror.
A number of freed hostages who were kidnapped in the October 7 attack have also testified after returning to Israel that they were held in captivity in UNRWA schools and facilities.
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