UN agency closes East Jerusalem compound after arson

The main United Nations aid agency for Palestinians closed its headquarters in East Jerusalem after local Israeli residents set fire to areas at the edge of the sprawling compound on Thursday, the agency said. Adam Bouloukos, director of UNRWA affairs in the occupied West Bank, said with the assistance of some colleagues, he managed to put out the fire which consumed around 70 meters of dry grass and scrub near the compound fence.