Israel destroys UN Palestinian agency HQ in Jerusalem

Israel began demolishing the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (unrwa) in Jerusalem. Israel banned the organization’s activities within Israel in 2024 due to its well-documented complicity in helping Hamas attack Israel and evicted all employees of its Jerusalem headquarters earlier this month. Yet the world still frames unrwa’s work in the Holy Land as kind-hearted humanitarianism facing an evil Israeli occupation. Philippe Lazzarini, the agency’s commissioner general, called this “an unprecedented attack against a United Nations agency and its premises.” This bluster surrounding the demolition is the latest example of the UN’s thorough hypocrisy.