UNRWA staff cuts deepen in Gaza as Israel restricts critical aid access

Gaza City — After 18 years as a teacher with an UNRWA-run school, Maryam Shaaban (name changed for safety reasons) fainted upon learning she was among 600 employees dismissed from their posts, the latest in a barrage of devastating blows borne out of Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged enclave.

Earlier in January, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) ann...