Gaza City – Thousands of employees of the United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency in the Gaza Strip are striking against cost-cutting measures the agency is imposing to overcome a financial crisis.
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The protesters say they want the commissioner-general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency to cancel measures that would allow the agency to impose one-year unpaid leave on staff and increase the number of students in U.N.-run classrooms.
Some 13,000 teachers, health workers and other employees are on strike. A demonstration Monday outside the agency’s Gaza headquarters was the largest of a series of demonstrations in recent weeks.
Hamas-run schools in the Palestinian territory began the school year, but U.N.-run schools remain closed because of the strike.
UNRWA spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna said the unpaid leave measure has been frozen.
perhaps they should ask for some support from their best friends, the iranians,
UNRWA is a government within a government that’s funded by the US andajot world powers
as #2 said, the US is the number 1 funder of these anti-Semites and I am sure Obama will find money to give to his best friends if not he is helping them through the Iranians to whom he gave a $150 BILLION dollar check to.