(2 Sept 06 - RV) Unpaid teachers shut down hundreds of schools across the West Bank
and Gaza Strip Saturday, the first day of the school year, giving the Hamas-led government
another setback. Also in the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops killed up to three militants
in a raid of the Palestinian territory. Eoin Murray from Trocaire,
the Irish Catholic Aid Agency, lived in Gaza for two years and has just come back
from a visit there. He told us the situation is the worst he has ever seen…