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The agency tried unsuccessfully to explain that the changes were being done to redesign and upgrade the website on the 60th anniversary of UNRWA but the massive protests continued, with UNRWA capitulating to the protestors' demands.

This was a strange comment coming from Abuzayd, a woman who is married to a Sudanese professor, holds a degree in Islamic studies and has worked for UNRWA in Gaza since 2000, first as deputy commissioner of UNRWA and since 2005 as the top boss.

Dozens of UNRWA schools in Gaza suffered devastating damage during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas in the summer of 2014.

The director of UNRWA operations in Gaza, John Ging, gave a speech in London this week entitled "Illegal, inhuman and insane: a medieval siege on Gaza in 2010".

The mission had to be cut short and the team was forced to leave the area after gunfire around the school," said Chris Gunness, of UNRWA.

More recently, in November 2001, the Israeli delegate to the United Nations General Assembly expressed Israel's "appreciation for the efforts of UNRWA in providing important services, especially in the fields of health care and education".

They sit at the many local levers of the UNRWA distribution machinery, which under UNRWA policy takes on the coloration of and yields to the policies of host governments–as UNRWA officials explained to U.S. lawmakers who some years ago challenged the use of anti-Israeli textbooks in UNRWA schools.

It's hard to know whether it is of any concern to UNRWA that one of the conduits headlined by Ban Ki-moon for its Gaza relief appeal is a U.S.-censured bank, headquartered in a country that hosts Hamas leaders such as Meshal, and is designated by the U.S. as a state sponsor of terrorism.

In Lebanon, six out of nine UNRWA schools in the Ein El Hilweh refugee camp in the south of the country sustained major damage during widespread armed clashes between factions last August.

Families from North Gaza seek refuge in one of the UNRWA schools.

"Precise co-ordinates of the UNRWA shelter in Beit Hanoun had been formally given to the Israeli army," Guinness wrote.