UNRWA head says organization important for regional stability
"We have 526,000 boys and girls in our education system. The highest performing student in Syria last year was a young Palestinian refugee girl, in spite of all the traumas and disasters."
Palestinian schoolgirls queue at an UNRWA-run school, on the first day of a new school year, in Gaza City August 29, 2018(photo credit: REUTERS/MOHAMMED SALEM)ByTOVAH LAZAROFF