Algeria, Spain Discuss Illegal Immigration Issue

Part of the meeting held between Algerian Minister of Interior, Local Authorities and National Planning Kamal Beldjoud and his Spanish counterpart Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gomez. AFP
Part of the meeting held between Algerian Minister of Interior, Local Authorities and National Planning Kamal Beldjoud and his Spanish counterpart Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gomez. AFP
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Algeria, Spain Discuss Illegal Immigration Issue

Part of the meeting held between Algerian Minister of Interior, Local Authorities and National Planning Kamal Beldjoud and his Spanish counterpart Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gomez. AFP
Part of the meeting held between Algerian Minister of Interior, Local Authorities and National Planning Kamal Beldjoud and his Spanish counterpart Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gomez. AFP

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune received Monday in Algiers Interior Minister of the Kingdom of Spain, Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gomez and the two highlighted efforts between the two countries to develop security cooperation.

During his visit, the Spanish minister also met his Algerian counterpart Kamal Beldjoud and discussed the issue of illegal immigration.

The Spanish minister also stressed need to develop cooperation in the security field to fight organized crime and terrorism in the region, as well as in the areas of civil protection and road safety.

According to Frontex, up to 3,700 migrants traveled across the Mediterranean during the first five months of 2020. However,



UN Agency Says Israel Shuts 4 Schools in East Jerusalem

A boy stands outside the gate of the Kalandia vocational training center (KTC), run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was raided by Israeli forces earlier at the Qalandiya camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2025. (AFP)
A boy stands outside the gate of the Kalandia vocational training center (KTC), run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was raided by Israeli forces earlier at the Qalandiya camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2025. (AFP)
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UN Agency Says Israel Shuts 4 Schools in East Jerusalem

A boy stands outside the gate of the Kalandia vocational training center (KTC), run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was raided by Israeli forces earlier at the Qalandiya camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2025. (AFP)
A boy stands outside the gate of the Kalandia vocational training center (KTC), run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was raided by Israeli forces earlier at the Qalandiya camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2025. (AFP)

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says Israeli forces raided four of its schools in east Jerusalem, ordering their closure.

Israel has severed all ties with the agency, known as UNRWA, and bars it from operating in its territory. It says the agency allowed itself to be infiltrated by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, allegations denied by UN officials.

UNRWA said police entered a training center by force on Tuesday, firing tear gas and sound grenades and ordering its evacuation. It said 350 students and 30 staff were present during the raid on the Qalandiya Training Center.

It said police and city officials ordered the closure of three other schools in east Jerusalem, two of which proceeded with the school day.

Israeli police spokesman Dean Elsdunne said police did not enter the UN buildings and that Jerusalem municipal authorities carried out the closures. He said police were deployed to protect the city workers, using “riot dispersal” means in one case where a crowd threw stones at them outside a UN facility.

Roland Friedrich, UNRWA director for the occupied West Bank, including east Jerusalem, said the raids were an “unacceptable violation of United Nations privileges and immunities,” and a “denial of the right to education for children and trainees.”