{"id":284066,"date":"2022-12-12T16:13:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=284066"},"modified":"2022-12-13T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:22:20","slug":"failure-to-respect-unrwa-neutrality-and-inviolability-in-the-west-bank-statement","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/failure-to-respect-unrwa-neutrality-and-inviolability-in-the-west-bank-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure to Respect UNRWA Neutrality and Inviolability in the West Bank &#8211; Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-publish-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><strong><span class=\"date-display-single\">12 December 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><b>AMMAN<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">On 5 December, Israeli Security Forces forcibly entered the premises of an UNRWA girls\u2019 school in the Bethlehem area of the West Bank. They also attempted to forcibly enter an UNRWA boys\u2019 school nearby.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">The integrity of the schools was further compromised during clashes between Israeli Security Forces inside the school and Palestinians outside.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">As a result, one Palestine refugee man was killed by live ammunition and several others were injured in front of the UNRWA girls\u2019 school. Education services in the area were stopped for the day to protect the safety and security of Palestine refugee children.<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">UNRWA protested to the relevant Israeli authorities over the breach of its installation. UNRWA issued a separate protest to the Palestinian authorities for throwing of stones and ammunition liquid into UNRWA premises. The Agency is currently repairing the damage to the school.<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">UNRWA reiterates its call on all parties to respect the neutrality and\u00a0inviolability of Â鶹APP premises at all times. Breaches of this inviolability are not only very serious violations of UN privileges and immunities, they can also impede the ability of UNRWA to deliver services to Palestine refugees, placing refugees \u00a0and staff at risk.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 12 December 2022 AMMAN On 5 December, Israeli Security Forces forcibly entered the premises of an UNRWA girls\u2019 school in the Bethlehem area of the West Bank. They also attempted to forcibly enter an UNRWA boys\u2019 school nearby.\u00a0\u00a0The integrity of the schools was further compromised during clashes between Israeli Security Forces inside the school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/failure-to-respect-unrwa-neutrality-and-inviolability-in-the-west-bank-statement\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2941,2033,2441,1741,1857,2385,6251],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-284066","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-bethlehem","document-subject-children","document-subject-education-and-culture","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-security-issues","document-subject-west-bank","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/284066","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\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/284066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=284066"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=284066"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=284066"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=284066"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=284066"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=284066"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=284066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}