After Netanyahu’s call to implement a Knesset ban on the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Israeli forces have attacked several educational centres affiliated with it in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reports.

In the Qalandiya refugee camp, Israeli forces and Jerusalem municipality personnel forcefully entered the Qalandiya Training Centre and ordered its immediate evacuation while 350 students and 30 staff were present. Tear gas and sound bombs were used against the civilians.

In occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers and authorities stormed the UNRWA Jerusalem Elementary Boys School in the Wadi al-Joz neighbourhood this morning, expelled students from their desks, and forced the staff to close the school.

Another force from the Israeli intelligence service stormed an UNRWA school in the East Jerusalem town of Silwan and interrogated the principal before withdrawing from the scene. Another school was targeted in East Jerusalem’s Sur Baher neighbourhood, according to the Wafa news agency.

UNRWA confirmed that the schoolday continued as usual in Sur Baher and Silwan schools, while Wadi al-Joz school was evacuated to ensure students’ safety.

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