![Children gather outside the gate of the Kalandia vocational training centre (KTC), run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was raided by Israeli forces earlier at the Qalandia camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2025. [Photo by ZAIN JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2199687694-1.jpg)
Israeli forces on Tuesday raided the UN agency for Palestinian refugees’ (UNRWA) Qalandia Training Center north of occupied East Jerusalem and shut down its entrances, according to Palestinian authorities, Anadolu reports. The Jerusalem Governorate said in a statement that Israeli forces stormed the UNRWA-run institute in the Airport Road area north of Jerusalem. It said troops closed the institute’s main entrance and the area’s main road, fired large quantities of tear gas, and remained deployed inside the facility and its surroundings. No further details were immediately available. The raid came after the Jerusalem Governorate warned on June 11 of an Israeli plan targeting the removal of UNRWA’s vocational training institute in Qalandia. READ: Israeli army closes charity headquarters in occupied West […]
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