JERUSALEM - The U.N. Relief and Works Agency has indefinitely suspended food distribution in the Gaza Strip after protesters angry over the curtailing of a cash-assistance program for the poor stormed the agency’s main compound Thursday in Gaza City, an official said Friday.
The agency provides nutrition, education, health and other services to some 815,000 Palestinian refugees, nearly half of Gaza’s population.
The agency provides threemonth rations of flour, oil, sugar, rice and other staples to about 25,000 people a day through scores of centers scattered throughout Gaza’s refugee camps.
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