Palestinian sisters Ruba, left, and Shahd el-Ajram

Palestinian sisters Ruba, left, and Shahd el-Ajrami, ages 11, and 8, whose father is among the hundreds who were recently laid-off as teachers in United Nations -funded primary schools, participate in a demonstration, in front of the U.N. headquarters, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip , Monday, June 7, 2004. Those laid off say it`s to make way for new university graduates, but that their situation is made desperate by the lack of a viable economy in Gaza Strip, with a 60 percent unemployment rate, about triple that at the start of the current conflict with Israel nearly four years ago. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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