Arab League: Banning UNRWA from East Jerusalem is null and void

INA - CAIRO

The Council of the Arab League confirmed on Monday that the Zionist entity's ban on UNRWA's work in East Jerusalem is "a null and void measure."

"The ban by the Zionist entity, the occupying power, on UNRWA's work in East Jerusalem based on its null definition of the sovereign lands of the occupying power entity, is a null and void measure with no legal effect. The entity does not have any sovereignty in East Jerusalem or over any part of the land it occupied on June 5, 1967," said the Council in a statement - received by the Iraqi News Agency - INA.

The statement included that "the meeting of the Council of the Arab League in its extraordinary session at the level of permanent delegates stressed that all Zionist measures against the headquarters and assets of UNRWA in East Jerusalem are invalid and have no legal effect and that the entity, as an occupying power, does not have the legitimacy or authority to take any measures to confiscate private or public property belonging to the occupying state or to change the legal and administrative character of the occupied territories by the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and the Hague Regulations of 1970."