{"id":446809,"date":"2026-05-17T22:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/446809\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:55:14","slug":"katz-defense-ministry-complex-to-be-build-on-site-of-demolished-unrwa-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/446809\/","title":{"rendered":"Katz: Defense Ministry complex to be build on site of demolished UNRWA complex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> has approved a proposal to establish a Defense Ministry complex on the site of the demolished UN Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) complex in Jerusalem, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Sunday in a post on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n

According to Katz<\/a>, the new Ammunition Hill complex will include an IDF recruitment office, an IDF museum, and an office for the Defense Minister.<\/p>\n

“Today, on Jerusalem Day, we liberated a new area in Jerusalem when the government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved my proposal to establish a Defense Ministry complex… in place of the demolished UNRWA<\/a> complex,” said Katz.<\/p>\n

“We outlawed this terrorist-supporting UN organization [UNRWA] and took the area, and now on its ruins we are building and strengthening Jerusalem – the eternal capital of the Jewish people,” continued Katz.<\/p>\n

UNRWA’s Jerusalem headquarters was demolished in January due to “the implementation of existing Israeli legislation concerning UNRWA-Hamas,” according to the Foreign Ministry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UNRWA\u2019s ties with the Hamas terrorist organization have been continuously exposed since the Gaza war began on October 7, 2023, with some UNRWA operatives even taking part in the October 7 massacre itself.<\/p>\n

In addition, numerous tunnels and other terrorist infrastructures were found under UNRWA buildings in Gaza.<\/p>\n

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrated the building’s demolition, calling it a “very important day for Jerusalem’s governance.”<\/p>\n

“For years, these terror supporters were here, and today they are banished with everything they built,” said Ben-Gvir.<\/p>\n

Yisrael Beytenu MK Yulia Malinovsky, an initiator of a bill to sever ties with UNRWA, said of the demolition, “redemption has come to Zion!”<\/p>\n

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres criticized the Jerusalem building’s demolition, describing Israel’s actions against UNRWA as “wholly unacceptable.”<\/p>\n

Guterres added that Israel’s actions were against international law, according to Deputy UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved a proposal to establish a Defense Ministry complex on the site of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6603,49,17466,42,2723,3794,43,40,38,41,39,4497,4498],"class_list":["post-446809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-defense-ministry","tag-headlines","tag-israel-katz","tag-jerusalem","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-nations","tag-unrwa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}