DAMASCUS (AFP) - The United Nations has opened a tented school for some 90 Palestinian refugee children in the no-man’s land between Iraq and Syria.

The children are among 354 Palestinians who have been stranded at the border for nine months since fleeing sectarian violence in Iraq in which Palestinians are often targeted as suspected sympathisers of Sunni Arab insurgents.

The school’s eight teachers are drawn from among the refugees themselves and underwent a week-long training course in Damascus last month, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said Monday.

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