New Delhi, Jan. 21 -- Antonio Guterres condemns Israeli authorities for destroying a UN facility in Sheikh Jarrah, warning the act amounts to an attack on the United Nations and a grave violation of international law

The United Nations Secretary-General has condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli authorities' demolition of a United Nations facility in occupied East Jerusalem, escalating an already tense standoff between Israel and the world body over international law and the status of Palestinian territory.

According to the United Nations, Israeli forces demolished the headquarters compound of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem earl...