Gaza – UN Agency For Palestinians Says School Closures Loom

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    Palestinian children enjoy a ride on a ferris wheel near residential buildings, that witnesses said were destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer, in Beit Lahiya town in the northern Gaza Strip July 27, 2015. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemGaza – The UN agency helping Palestinian refugees says a $101 million funding gap could keep 500,000 Palestinian students out of school this fall.

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    The deputy chief of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, Sandra Mitchell, said Monday that “if funding does not arrive” this month, the agency could delay the start of the school year.

    The agency helps five million Palestinian refugees and their descendants in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. It operates 700 schools.

    The budget shortfall comes at a time of rising Palestinian needs after last year’s Gaza war and competition over aid following the Syria conflict that has displaced millions.

    Jordan’s education minister said Sunday that Jordan can’t absorb students from the U.N. system because its schools are full after taking in 130,000 Syrians.


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    albroker
    albroker
    8 years ago

    I have a hard time believing that Obama would allow his beloved Palestinians to not get an “education” in how to hate Jews. Obama will just raise taxes or add up debt to pay for his beloved.

    8 years ago

    If they teach there what we know they teach, then these schools should never receive a dime, nor should they open. Unless our terrorist president recognizes that the Palestinians dedicate their lives to brutality, savagery, and terror, and withdraws every form of support, then we will continue to observe the mayhem we have seen until now. The current White House supports the terror agenda that is advanced by the anti-Israel UN and its agencies, and this is a tragedy for all of mankind.

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    8 years ago

    Take some of the money allocated to tunnel digging and bomb making and invest in the school system.

    sighber
    sighber
    8 years ago

    Maybe they should give money for schools fot descendants of Jewish refugees from Arab counties anf descendants of Jewish refugees from the holocaust and former Soviet.Union?

    8 years ago

    Less schools, less rocket launching sites….