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Hamas warns of plan to lay off 7,000 UNRWA staff and calls it targeting the refugee cause

Palestine ·

Basem Naim, head of Hamas's Arab and Islamic relations office, warned that a circulating plan to lay off more than 7,000 UNRWA staff in the West Bank and Gaza would target the refugee cause.

UNRWA is the UN agency set up in 1949 to provide education, health care and relief to Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

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