Despite the optimism shown Monday by staff and students at the ceremony to celebrate the opening of UNRWA schools across Lebanon, the pressure under which the organization is operating was all too obvious.
“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome,” began 15-year-old Ali Abou Jaras, head of the student committee at Haifa Intermediate School in Bir Hassan. Then he paused.
“Should I begin? I can’t hear anything from the speakers.”
