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UN: Israel needs to move quickly to ease closure (AP)

June 21st, 2010

A Palestinian boy turns around as he walks toward a primary school housed inside United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) containers, in Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Monday, June 21, 2010. Students in this refugee camp study in stifling hot shipping containers and there is no space in U.N. classrooms for thousands of incoming first graders because of Israel's blockade of Gaza has kept out supplies for building new schools. Israel's 3-year-old blockade of Gaza, meant to pressure the territory's Islamic militant Hamas rulers, has brought hardship to many of the 1.5 million people living there. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - Students in this refugee camp study in stifling hot metal shipping containers, and there’s no space in the crammed U.N. classrooms for thousands of incoming first graders because Israel’s blockade of Gaza has kept out supplies for building schools.


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