Netanyahu says Unrwa raid carried out in accordance with law, Ben Gvir says UN agency 'in our hands'

Netanyahu says Unrwa raid carried out in accordance with law, Ben Gvir says UN agency 'in our hands' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the "evacuation" of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) facility in the occupied West Bank carried out by Israeli forces on Tuesday was "in accordance with my directive and following the law we passed". "The State of Israel will not allow an organization whose employees were complicit in terrorism and the October 7 massacre to operate within its territory, and will act against it by all means at its disposal," Netanyahu said in a statement released by his office on X. Meanwhile, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who accompanied troops as they stormed the facility, posted an image of the site with the words “UNRWA in our hands”.