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UN mulls teaching Holocaust in Gaza: senior official
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AFP
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees is mulling teaching the Holocaust
to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip but is facing strong opposition from
residents, the head of the agency said on Wednesday. Skip related
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A worker cleans the wall of the Hall of Names in the Holocaust History
Museum
UNRWA officials are considering teaching the Nazi genocide of six
million Jews during World War II to secondary school children as part of
a human rights curriculum, said Karen AbuZayd.
But she stressed that the project, which has stirred stiff opposition in
the Palestinian enclave, was still in its early stages.
"It's not even a draft; it's just some ideas that have been outlined.
This human rights curriculum will be discussed with human rights experts
in Gaza and with the community, the parents."
UNRWA earlier denied it had any immediate plans to teach the Holocaust
in the schools it runs in Gaza following an outcry, notably from Hamas,
which decried what it called plans to "teach a lie."
The strongest response came from Gaza residents rather than from Hamas,
the enclave's Islamist leaders, AbuZayd said.
"It's not Hamas really, it's the community," she said.
"People don't understand why with what they've gone through ... they
would have to learn about somebody else's problems," she said.
Hamas insists that the Holocaust is vastly exaggerated, a view that is
far from uncommon in the Arab world.
AbuZayd spoke to journalists ahead of a trip to France next week where
she hopes to raise funds for the cash-strapped UNRWA, which is 17
million dollars short in this year's operational budget alone.
UNRWA is the main provider of basic services -- education, health,
relief and social services -- to more than 4.6 million Palestinian
refugees and their descendants in the Middle East.
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