"The students here suffer from many pressures in life, both social and economic," says principal Rana Nabhan. Nabhan explains that without schools like this, which allow students to attend for free, many of the girls would receive no education at all. The other options are simply too expensive for refugee families.
But new legislation requiring Israel to cut ties with UNRWA has thrown the future of Qalandia and the agency's other schools into doubt. A question mark also hangs over dozens of UNRWA-operated health clinics, and the wide-ranging social services the agency provides not only in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, but also in war-torn Gaza.
Without the cooperation of Israel that has existed since UNRWA's inception some 75 years ago, many fear the agency cannot continue functioning, as supplies and staff are halted at Israeli checkpoints.
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