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Monday, August 24, 2015
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Monday, August 24, 2015
UNRWA teachers strike shutters Gaza’s schools
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA strike by workers at the UN’s Palestinian refugee organization UNRWA shuts schools across the Gaza Strip on the first day of the Palestinian school year, keeping hundreds of thousands of children from their lessons.
Staff are protesting the organization’s financial problems, overcrowding in classrooms, which sometimes see as many as 50 pupils in one room, and unpaid vacation days, the Palestinian news agency Ma’an reports.
Teaching staff are demanding that the number of students in a class be brought down to a maximum of 38.
Protests are planned for five locations in the coastal enclave, including UNRWA’s Gaza City headquarters, where 13,000 employees are to hold a sit-in.
— Stuart Winer
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