Two members of the UNRWA staff union started on Wednesday morning an open-ended hunger strike in protest at the refugee agency’s reluctance to respond to its employees’ demands.
These members Salah Rashid and Ibrahim Zawahra declared their hunger strike in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in east Jerusalem and Ramallah City to pressure UNRWA to end what they called its negligence procrastination and arrogance regarding its employees’ demands and its disregard for the initiative that was recently put forward by the Palestinian Authority.
In this regard the UNRWA staff union held the agency’s administration fully responsible for the lives of Rashid and Zawahra affirming that other members would join the hunger strike soon.
The UNRWA employees have been holding a general strike for more than two months due to the agency’s failure to respond to their demands including their need for a pay raise.
