Gaza: UNRWA teaching staff call for strike as school year starts More than a million students went back to school on Monday in the Palestinian territories, as employees from UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, demonstrated in Gaza to denounce a decision announced by the agency to push back the start of the school year due to lack of funds pledged by international donors, and to lay off some of its teaching staff without pay for a year. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES of the demo