UN Agency for Palestinians Says School Closures Loom

The UN agency helping Palestinian refugees says a $101 million funding gap could keep 500,000 Palestinian students out of school this fall
UN Agency for Palestinians Says School Closures Loom
Palestinian children fly kites and sit watching the sunset n Khan Younis, a town and refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. AP Photo/Hatem Moussa
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip—The UN agency helping Palestinian refugees says a $101 million funding gap could keep 500,000 Palestinian students out of school this fall.

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.

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