Israeli official threatens Jerusalem UNRWA offices after seizure order

Israeli authorities would cut off water and electricity supplies to offices used by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and seize the site by force if it did not follow a government order to leave the East Jerusalem premises, the Israeli deputy mayor of Jerusalem stated. “If they will not leave, as the deputy mayor of Jerusalem I will call our water company and tell them to shut off the water, we will not supply them with electricity and we will not collect their rubbish,” Aryeh King said. “We will start to enter the property and try to enter with helicopters,” he added.