Damascus, SANA -The United Nations Relief and\u00a0Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced that 500 thousand\u00a0Palestinian students in 700 schools affiliated to the Agency in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, the West\u00a0Bank and Gaza strip will head back to school at time.<\/p>\n
The UNRWA said that the academic year 2015\/2016\u00a0will start at the agency schools without any delay.<\/p>\n
Director General of the Arab Palestinian Refugees\u00a0Ali Mustafa qouted UNRWA Commissioner- General Pierre Krahenbuhl as saying in a statement\u00a0that he has adopted this decision because education represents identity and dignity of the
\nPalestinian refugees and for the sake of 500,000 students whose future completely depends\u00a0on education and developing their skills in schools.<\/p>\n
Education is a basic right of the children all\u00a0over the world and the school year should not be endangered or delayed due to the lack of\u00a0funding of UNRWA budget, Krahenbuhl added.<\/p>\n
The statement pointed out that UNRWA has exerted\u00a0prompted efforts to revive solidarity with the Palestinian refugees and renewed\u00a0understandings on the importance of respecting the\u00a0rights of the Palestinian refugees and meeting
\ntheir requirements.<\/p>\n
H. Zain\/ Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Damascus, SANA -The United Nations Relief and\u00a0Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced that 500 thousand\u00a0Palestinian students in 700 schools affiliated to the Agency in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, the West\u00a0Bank and Gaza strip will head back to school at time. The UNRWA said that the academic year 2015\/2016\u00a0will start at the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,3,115,100,116,106,107],"tags":[1552],"class_list":["post-52067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabs","category-arabic-international","category-local","category-news","category-news-locals","category-syria-and-the-world","category-united-nations-syria-and-the-world","tag-unrwa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}