St. Louis Jewish Light · St. Louis, MO · 5 November 2014

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Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai giving $50K to Gaza school reconstruction

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said she will donate $50,000 to a U.N. agency in the effort to rebuild damaged schools in Gaza. Yousafzai, an advocate for worldwide access to education, was awarded the World Children’s Prize on Oct.

29 and promptly said she would donate the prize money to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees to assist its efforts to repair schools damaged by this summer’s fighting in Gaza.

“We must all work to ensure Palestinian boys and girls, and all children everywhere, receive a quality education in a safe environment,” said Yousafzai, a 17-year-old Pakistani, in remarks posted on the UNRWA website. “ Because without education, there will never be peace.” In the Gaza conflict this summer, UNRWA schools served as civilian shelters.

Several schools were shelled, killing dozens of civilians and workers. UNRWA officials accused Israel of targeting schools, but Israel denied the claim while acknowledging that some of its shells had hit schools.

However, rockets were found stored in UNRWA schools and then subsequently disappeared, leading to Israeli accusations that agency officials had given them back to Hamas.

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Date and publication rest on the collector's slide label; no masthead, folio or printed dateline appears on this clipping. Adjudicated confirmed against the printed page: No masthead, folio or page number. The year is fixed beyond argument by the text: Malala Yousafzai "was awarded the World Children's Prize on Oct. 29" and will give the money to UNRWA to repair school. Filed under the archive’s spelling; the page prints “St Louis Jewish Light”.

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Four paragraphs: the first three carry Yousafzai’s gift, the fourth turns to rockets stored in UNRWA schools and Israeli accusations against agency officials. ‘Several schools were shelled, killing dozens of civilians and workers’ is the only account of the dead, with no agent named in that sentence.

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