Under fire and out of cash, U.N. overwhelmed by Gaza crisis

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The United Nations in Gaza is struggling to withstand a flood of almost a quarter of a million refugees into shelters that have repeatedly come under Israeli fire.Out of cash, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main U.N. body in the impoverished enclave of 1.8 million Palestinians, says it can barely handle the humanitarian crisis unleashed by more than three weeks of fighting between militants and Israel.

The same old problem might require new approaches to be solved for once. Yet again, the UN and its Security Council face the same old challenges to solve it. Why would something work this time that failed countless times before?