The United Nations agency dealing with Palestinian refugees may not be able to open schools for half a million children because it has run out of money since the United States cut its funding, UN officials say. UNRWA already faces what it described as a “very tense” situation in Gaza after job cuts drew protests by its own employees, leaving some senior staff unable to work in their offices. Some fear for the survival of the agency, which this month must decide whether it can open its network of schools across Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon for the coming academic year. “We are running on empty. We simply don’t have enough money to pay 22,000 teachers who in 711 schools provide a daily education for over half a million children,” said UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness, who described the situation as “catastrophic” and unprecedented. UN officials say that aid cuts by the United States, the single largest donor to UNRWA, were a major cause of the crisis. In January, US President Donald Trump said he would scale back aid to the Palestinians unless they cooperate with his plans to revive peacemaking with Israel. Those peace efforts stalled in 2014. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/fe...-wary-as-UN-may-not-open-schools-in-time.html Dear Gazans.. You can't on one hand support Hamas as a terrorist organization that fires missiles at your neighbors and on the other hand expect that the world will continue to fund aid organizations. If you want to live a good and prosperous life like your brothers in Ramallah and Nablus, you'll need to kick Hamas out ! Good luck.
