Palestinian officials warn of Israeli plan to remove UNRWA vocational college in East Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Governorate warned Thursday of an Israeli plan to remove a vocational training college run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the occupied city, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the governorate said the Israeli municipality is advancing a plan to build a “new educational complex” on land that has housed UNRWA’s vocational training college for decades in occupied East Jerusalem. The college, known as the Qalandiya Training College, is located between Kafr Aqab and the Qalandiya refugee camp in the city. According to UNRWA, the training center is serving 350 male and female students. It is located on land made available to the agency by the Jordanian government before Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967. […]