The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) recently failed to secure permission to construct several schools for children in the Gaza Strip. Such requests are usually approved by the Israeli Defense Ministry. However, in this case, Israeli objected to the placement of the schools:
"Since Israel eased the blockade on the Gaza Strip in July, the office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories has approved 70 international projects – including the renovation of a sewage treatment plant, the construction of 151 housing units and eight new schools.
But when the Defense Ministry received the UNRWA request for the new schools and checked their planned location, defense officials said they were alarmed to discover that the UN had planned to build the schools adjacent to a Hamas military installation."
But when the Defense Ministry received the UNRWA request for the new schools and checked their planned location, defense officials said they were alarmed to discover that the UN had planned to build the schools adjacent to a Hamas military installation."
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Jacob Nelson
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