Israel Demolishes Terrorist-Linked UNRWA’s East Jerusalem Headquarters
Israel’s Foreign Ministry: “UNRWA-Hamas has long ceased to be a humanitarian aid organization, serving instead as a greenhouse for terrorism.”
Israel dismantled the East Jerusalem headquarters of the terrorist-linked United Nations Palestinian agency (UNRWA). “Israel demolished structures inside the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency’s East Jerusalem compound on Tuesday after seizing the site last year,” Reuters reported. “Surrounded by Israeli forces, bulldozers razed several large buildings and other smaller structures inside the United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s compound, where dozens of agency staff once worked.”
CRUSHED: Israel demolished UNRWA HQ in Jerusalem today
⭕️ UNRWA knowingly employed Hamas terror chiefs to run their education system
⭕️ UNRWA school graduates were the October 7th murderers and rapists
⭕️ For 10 years we urged UNRWA to end their terror ties but they refused— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 20, 2026
Last October, the Israeli parliament passed a law banning UNRWA from operating anywhere in Israel and severing all official contacts with the body. The drastic measure was taken after the Israeli military revealed the identities of hundreds of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists who were on the UN agency’s payroll, with several of them taking part in the October 7 massacre.
“UNRWA employees participated in the October 7th massacre and the kidnapping of Israelis,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry explained in a statement on Tuesday.
“Numerous employees within the organization are Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, and the organization’s infrastructure has been used for tunnel construction, rocket fire, and terrorist activities,” the ministry added. “UNRWA-Hamas has long ceased to be a humanitarian aid organization, serving instead as a greenhouse for terrorism.”
You’re probably seeing headlines about Israel demolishing the UNRWA site in Jerusalem. Here’s a reminder of what UNRWA has been accused of:
– UNRWA employees participated in the October 7 massacre.
– UNRWA staff kidnapped the body of Israeli Yonatan Samerano and took it into… pic.twitter.com/HxvnwFsbTk
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) January 20, 2026
The Jerusalem Post reports:
Israeli personnel arrived to dismantle the UNRWA (UN Relief Works Agency) headquarters on Ammunition Hill in northern Jerusalem on Tuesday morning.
Ammunition Hill is the central headquarters from which all of the organization’s activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem were managed. UNRWA’s main logistical infrastructure was concentrated within the building.
Israel Police noted that security forces were at the scene to ensure the safety of workers demolishing the site, which had been vacant for at least a year.
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Since the beginning of the war, UNRWA’s ties with the terrorist organization Hamas have been exposed, and it was discovered that some UNRWA operatives even took part in the October 7 massacre. In addition, numerous tunnels and terrorist infrastructures were found under buildings belonging to UNRWA in the Gaza Strip.
“This is a historic day, a holiday, and a very important day for Jerusalem’s governance,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stated.
“For years, these terror supporters were here, and today they are banished with everything they built.”
The UN agency has been deeply infiltrated by Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza and the West Bank, weaponizing the so-called humanitarian organization. The Wall Street Journal reported in January 2024 that out of UNRWA’s 12,000 employees, “around 10% of all of Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups.” According to an official Israeli report published around that time, these “figures are based on cross-referencing UNRWA’s official staff lists with Hamas’ own personnel records—including internal recruitment databases, military training rosters, and administrative files—matched through national ID numbers.”
. @UNRWA is infiltrated by Hamas. Personnel perpetrated terror. Facilities were used to store weapons, launch rockets, access terror tunnels. pic.twitter.com/1C1c4Qfcof
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) January 20, 2026
The same report revealed that Hamas was using UNRWA facilities for various terrorist activities, including turning them into command centres, locating tunnel shafts, and placing missile launchers around these compounds.
Unbelievable: UNRWA, an official UN Agency, has been colluding with the Hamas terrorist regime for years. Under the HQ in Gaza, Hamas built a subterranean data center and living quarters. Electrical cables ran from inside the HQ into the tunnels. pic.twitter.com/RJQvv83PtJ
— Tammy Ben-Haim 🎗️ (@tammybenhaim) February 11, 2024
Just weeks after this report was published, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) uncovered a Hamas server farm and a tunnel complex beneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters. The underground Hamas base was hooked to UNRWA’s electricity connection, proving that the agency’s staffers were colluding — if not actively working — with the terrorists.
Shortly after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order defunding UNRWA. Recent media reports suggest that the president is considering terrorism-related sanctions on the disgraced agency. Fox News reported last week on “a potential Trump administration move to designate the U.N. agency as a foreign terrorist organization.”
OCTOBER: Secretary of State Rubio on UNRWA:
“UNRWA is a subsidiary of Hamas.”
JANUARY: UN Chief Guterres:
“Israel must cease destroying the UNRWA Jerusalem compound” pic.twitter.com/gbQu9yX2dZ
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 20, 2026
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Comments
Good! Get plenty of photos and send some to the UN.
I agree. It’s about time! Hope U.S. moves to kick them out of NYC.
Great news.
Took way longer than I expected
This is on orders of Trump. They’ll build a ballroom.
/sorry. had to…
Israel should issue an arrest warrant for all UN staff up to and including the secretary general in UNWRAs chain of command. The buck stops there.
The US should follow suit by imposing sanctions on them and kicking out of the US and barring them from entry. Better yet, arrest them and turn them over to Israel.
wow
people with the actual courage to tear down their blmplo housing units
How much trip charge would Israel want to do the New York office?
HURRAH!!
Are they going to take the site over and build housing? That compound is right next to some very popular neighborhoods, and Ammunition Hill itself is a popular tourist site. I once happened upon a group of IDF soldiers in training being given a guided tour of the site from a military perspective, describing the battle in 1967, so I tagged along and listened. It was fascinating.
Hoorah! Finally!
Now build a synagogue on the land.
According to press reports, the site is about 10 acres, and the plan is to build 1,400 apartments on it. Any housing project of that size will certainly include at least one synagogue and probably several.
What took so long?
I remember how upset I was to learn in 1970 that the money I had collected for UNICEF as part of my Trick Or Treating was going to Palestinian “refugee camps” to teach Palestinian children to hate/kill Jews. I’ve known for 55 years that the UN is a terrorist-abetting agency.