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Gaza: 13,000 UNRWA Workers Launch Strike to Protest Trump’s Funding Cuts

HeadlineJan 30, 2018

In Gaza, about 13,000 workers with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, went on strike Monday to protest President Trump’s decision to slash the United States’ funding to the agency. This is Reem Abu Hmeid, a teacher at an UNRWA school.

Reem Abu Hmeid: “We are protesting for the right of the refugees, the right of return. We will never give up this right with years and days, the right of return to our occupied lands. It is the duty of UNRWA and the United Nations to provide for us education and medical services.”

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