UNRWA chief denounces Israeli police seizure of agency's Jerusalem assets

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "Whatever action [is] taken domestically, the compound retains its status as a UN premises, immune from any form of interference," Lazzarini says. Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
52% : "Today in the early morning, Israeli police accompanied by municipal officials forcibly entered the UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem," Philippe Lazzarini says on X. With trucks and forklifts, the authorities took "furniture, IT equipment and other property," and the compound's United Nations flag was replaced with an Israeli one, Lazzarini adds.
50% : The chief of the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees denounces the Israeli authorities' seizure of assets from its East Jerusalem compound earlier today, which police told news agencies was part of a debt-collection operation.
48% : " Jerusalem police spokesman Dean Elsdunne told AFP that the debt collection was related to the arnona, an Israeli residence tax that covers municipal services.
45% : Under a 1946 convention, the UN and its assets must not be taxed by host countries.
26% : "There is no debt because the United Nations -- and UNRWA is part of the United Nations and is a UN agency -- is not required to pay any kind of taxes of that kind under international law and under the law that Israel itself has adopted," he says.

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