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The Israeli military has been attacking sites in Lebanon despite a ceasefire last year.
The attacks are responses to what Israel says are attempts by Hezbollah to rearm.
A military spokesman says the plans for an airstrike on a site about 15 miles north of the two countries' border were temporarily frozen after the Lebanese army said it would go in and inspect it.
The move comes after both countries sent civilian envoys to a U.S.-led military committee that is monitoring the ceasefire.
Washington has demanded that Israel and Lebanon cooperate more in pursuit of regional stability.
Jerome Sokolovsky, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
UNRWA was set up in 1948 and it provides services to millions of Palestinians.
Although the agency was banned last year from operating inside Israel, operations in occupied East Jerusalem and elsewhere continued.
Police say they raided the offices to collect municipal debts.
An UNRWA statement says they seized IT equipment and other property and replaced the UN flag on the roof with an Israeli flag.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the raid amounts to unauthorized entry.
He's demanding Israel respect the, quote, inviolability of UNRWA premises.
Israel says some UNRWA employees took part in the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.
Jerome Sokolovsky, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Whatever he decides is OK with me.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, was set up in 1948, and it provides services to millions of Palestinians.
Although the agency was banned last year from operating inside Israel, operations in occupied East Jerusalem and elsewhere continued.
Police say they raided the offices to collect municipal debts.
An UNRWA statement says they seized IT equipment and other property and replaced the U.N.
flag on the roof with an Israeli flag.