Israel Police and municipal officials on Monday raided the shuttered Jerusalem offices of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which the Jewish state officially banned in January.

Police confirmed in a statement to JNS that the raid in the Ma’alot Dafna neighborhood was carried out by the municipality “as part of a debt-collection procedure” after the lease agreement ended.

Police were only present to secure municipal officials, according to the statement.

On Oct. 28, the Israeli Knesset passed laws banning UNRWA following the exposure of its complicity in Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, and despite pressure from the United States and other countries against the move.

The legislation formally came into effect on Jan. 30, prompting the immediate closure of the

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