Malala donates prize money to Gaza

Occupied Jerusalem: The UN agency that assists Palestinian refugees says Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has donated $50,000 to rebuild a UN school in Gaza damaged during this summer’s Israeli assault on Gaza.

UNRWA says Malala is donating all of the proceeds of the $50,000 World Children’s Prize, which she collected in Stockholm on Wednesday.

The agency quoted Malala as saying Palestinian children deserve a quality education, and that “without education, there will never be peace.”

Dozens of Gaza’s UN schools were damaged or destroyed during the Israeli assault. The 17-year-old Malala won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for promoting girls’ rights in her native Pakistan. She survived a shot in the head by a Taliban gunman two years ago.