The savagery and violence of some Israeli citizens needs to be reigned in. Maybe if their police forces weren't busy assaulting families of the hostages protesting for a ceasefire to bring their relatives home, they could bring some rule of law to their citizenry.
Without strong action by the Israeli government, we should consider them a failed pariah state, not 'the only democracy in the mideast'
Philippe Lazzarini is the Commissioner-General of #UNRWA
☝︎TLDR: Armed Israeli residents set fire TWICE to the #UNRWA headquarters in East #Jerusalem last night while staff were inside. The mob was chanting "Burn down the #UnitedNations."
Israeli police and fire were slow to respond, forcing the director and staff to try fighting the fire themselves while surrounded by an armed mob - very dangerous.
This is the second attack in a week, and protests by similar angry mobs have been ongoing for 2 months - called by member of the #Jerusalem govt. And staff have faced harassment and intimidation and guns pulled on them.
So the compound is being closed until #Israel can ensure it's protection as required by #InternationalLaw
Once again, I can currently find no western news articles about the attack on UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem.
Searches on both Google and DuckDuckGo for "UNRWA attack" and "UNRWA fire" are either non-western sources, or are about the allegations of Hamas affiliated staff. "UNRWA Jerusalem" provided the most relevant results, but again, no western sources show up.
A couple hours later, and "UNRWA Jerusalem" search reveals BBC, The Guardian, and AP have all added stories about the attack on their compound by an armed Israel mob that set fire to it.
Still no Reuters, NYTimes, Wapo, etc showing up via search yet. But at least AP picking it up means a number of local US papers that rely on their content will probably print the news.
What sort of world are we living in, where an attack on a UN facility isn't big and immediate news???
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