UN employees in Gaza hold strike over US aid cut

Schools, clinics and food distribution centers in the Gaza Strip were closed most of Monday by a demonstration by thousands of employees of the United Nations agency that serves Palestinian refugees.

Palestinians have been angered by a US decision to cut aid to the United Nations Relief and Welfare Agency (UNRWA), saying it will cause worse hardship in Gaza. 

More than half the enclave's two million residents depend on support from UNRWA and other humanitarian agencies.