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JERUSALEM - DECEMBER 08: Israeli army carries out a raid, and replaces the UN flag with the Israeli flag at the UNRWA center in east Jerusalem on December 08, 2025. (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel raids UN refugee agency compound in East Jerusalem

Israeli authorities have entered the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency's offices in East Jerusalem and raised Israel's flag, in a raid they say was ordered over unpaid taxes.

Civil Defence personnel use an excavator to search for the remains of victims in the rubble of a destroyed building in the Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip

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