BALATA CAMP, West Bank — Even before war erupted between Israel and Hamas, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees was broke.
Its top official for the West Bank was driving a 15-year-old car with broken headlights. Summer camps the agency used to run had been canceled. Some of its trademark blue-and-white schools, which educate about 46,000 students across East Jerusalem and the West Bank, hadn’t been painted in a decade.