Gaza, Sep 24 (TNS): In Gaza City, employees of UN’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA held a general strike today.
According to a UNRWA official, the strike was intended to protest the agency’s plan to scale down operations and dismiss employees in the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Some 13,000 Gaza-based agency employees had taken part in the strike.
In late July, a UNRWA spokesman announced that the agency would not renew the contracts of more than 100 staff members in Gaza.
