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   3 UNRWA employees hospitalized while on hunger strike
   Published Thursday 02/01/2014 (updated) 04/01/2014 14:55
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   HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Three employees of the UN agency for Palestine
   refugees were taken to the hospital for treatment after six days of
   hunger striking, an UNRWA employee told Ma'an.
   Abdullah Matar, coordinator of the employment program in the UNRWA,
   said that Hassan al-Butma, Walid al-Hamouz, and Ahmad al-Wehedi have
   been taken to the hospital for treatment.
   "Tonight we enter the seventh day of the strike, and we will continue
   the strike until the UNRWA responds to our demands and the demands of
   its Arab workers union," said Matar, who is on hunger strike himself.
   Matar said that the strikes were in protest of UNRWA's "shameful"
   layoffs of 55 employees in late 2013.
   "For the 31st day in a row, Arab workers in the UNRWA continue their
   strike from work," he said. "It seems that the crisis is about to
   escalate because the UNRWA is not responding to our demands, nor to the
   proposals of the Palestinian Authority."
   Matar said that there were 23 UNRWA employees on a hunger strike in
   Jerusalem, Hebron, Duheisha refugee camp in Bethlehem, and Nablus.
   Earlier, Arab workers union spokesman Farid al-Masimi gave Ma'an a
   slightly conflicting report, saying that the 23 employees had only been
   on hunger strike since Tuesday.
   UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunnes told Ma'an that the employees who were on
   hunger strike were temporary employees whose contracts were not
   renewed. The funding that provided those employees with salaries had
   been cut from $40 million to $25 million, he said.
   Gunnes said UNRWA advertised 27 job openings after the layoffs took
   place, but that "those on hunger strike did not apply."
   The employees were aware that their positions were "never permanent,"
   Gunnes said. "It seems a bit strange to go on hunger strike for that
   reason."
   UNRWA is the UN agency originally set up in 1949 to ensure relief and
   development for the Palestinian refugees expelled from what became the
   State of Israel in 1948.
   Today, the agency provides health care, education, social services, and
   other forms of aid to nearly 5 million Palestinian refugees.
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   1 ) Outlier / USA
   02/01/2014 22:40
   Time for Palestinians to create their own future and UNRWA to close.
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   2 ) Bobcuss / Usa
   03/01/2014 17:32
   Who cares about UNRWA they are one sided and bias hence they are
   irrelevant ! Close already
   Please wait ..

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