Unrwa closes East Jerusalem compound after attacks

The caput of the UN's largest assistance bureau successful Gaza says helium is temporarily closing its office successful occupied East Jerusalem aft a fig of attacks.

Philippe Lazzarini said "Israeli residents" doubly acceptable occurrence to the compound's perimeter connected Thursday evening.

There were nary casualties but the occurrence "caused extended harm to the outdoor areas," helium wrote connected societal media.

"Once again, the lives of UN unit were astatine a superior risk."

"Our manager with the assistance of different unit had to enactment retired the occurrence themselves arsenic it took the Israeli occurrence extinguishers and constabulary a portion earlier they turned up," helium added.

There was nary contiguous effect from the Israeli authorities.

Mr Lazzarini besides posted a video of what helium said was a "crowd accompanied by equipped men" who were chanting "burn down the United Nations". This video has not been verified by the BBC.

He said it was the 2nd clip this week the compound has travel nether attack, and it would not beryllium reopened until "proper information is restored".

Also this week, Unrwa said that it had reported 10 incidents involving shooting astatine convoys and bullying and harassment of UN unit successful a two-week period.

Israel has been highly captious of Unrwa, accusing immoderate of its unit members of engagement successful the 7 October Hamas attacks.

The allegations led respective planetary donors to temporarily halt their funding, though immoderate person present resumed assistance payments.

An autarkic UN reappraisal aboriginal ruled that Israel was yet to supply "supporting evidence" for this claim.