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Ahmed Aboul Gheit

Ahmed Aboul Gheit

Secretary-General of the Arab League

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Raid on UNRWA’s Jerusalem HQ tests UN immunity and Arab red lines

Force in Play

Leading Arab diplomatic pushback against the raid on UNRWA’s Jerusalem HQ

Israeli police and municipal officials rolled into a quiet UN compound in East Jerusalem before dawn. Motorbikes, trucks and forklifts smashed through UNRWA’s former headquarters in Sheikh Jarrah, seizing equipment, cutting communications and hauling down the UN flag to raise Israel’s own. UN officials say it was an unauthorized raid on inviolable UN premises; Israeli authorities insist it was just a municipal debt-collection move.

Updated Dec 11, 2025