Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, yesterday announced that he plans to remove the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees from occupied East Jerusalem, accusing it of “operating illegally and promoting incitement against Israel”. Following […]
Dozens of Palestinian school students suffered injuries, on Wednesday, during clashes with Israeli forces in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil). Local sources said that Israeli forces provoked Palestinian students as they […]
The Belgian Minister of Cooperation Alexander De Croo announced that Belgium will no longer cooperate with the Palestinian Ministry of Education while Palestinian schools bear the names of “terrorists.” The Brussels Times reported, on Friday, […]
Palestinian student Yousef Dweikat was banned from entering the campus of his university, An-Najah National University in Nablus, on Tuesday. DID YOU KNOW? "Palestinian student Yousef Dweikat was banned from entering the campus of his […]
Around 300 Palestinian minors who are being held by the Israeli occupation were unable to attend the first day of school yesterday, Safa News Agency reported. Reporting the Director of the Palestinian Prisoners Centre for […]
The new academic year launched in Gaza today under the theme “Year of Education in Jerusalem”. Some 3,030 schools reopened this year with 1.3 million students registered. Of those 2,212 are governmental including 1,811 are […]
Israeli occupation forces yesterday stormed a Palestinian school in the West Bank town of Al-Khader in Bethlehem and arrested three students. Israel attacks Palestinian school, arrests 3 students in Bethlehemhttps://t.co/1C3Fhs8KhX pic.twitter.com/TkeKT8ONGd — NewsFront in English […]
Israeli occupation bulldozers yesterday demolished mobile classrooms in Al-Tawani neighborhood in the southeast of Yatta in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), Quds Press reported. Palestinian boy sits on a chair with a […]
Israeli occupation forces last night declared the Khan Al-Ahmar Bedouin community a closed military zone and gave its residents until Friday to evacuate the area before it is demolished in preparation for a Jewish settlement […]
Birzeit University has been named as one of the top universities in the world, according to international rankings. Birzeit was ranked in the top 2.7 percent of universities worldwide, an improvement on last year’s ranking […]
The governments of both Israel and Myanmar signed an education cooperation agreement Monday allowing them to rewrite their own history in each other’s textbooks, contributing to a more benevolent image of them and their responsibility […]
Al Wafaa’ Islamic Bloc won 24 seats out of 51 in the Birzeit University Students Council elections with a total of 3,784 votes. For the fourth year, #Hamas won the student council seats at Birzeit […]
Human Rights Watch has issued a statement on April 24, 2018, stating that Israel has repeatedly denied Palestinians permits to build schools in the West Bank and demolished schools built without permits, making it more […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinian Ministry of Education denied reports that the European Union (EU) decided to suspend funds allotted for school curriculum, saying there is no change in EU policy in this regard. “These […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Students at Barnard College, the liberal arts women’s foundation, which is one of the top 60 campuses with the largest Jewish population in North America, voted to ask the university administration to divest […]
Spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, Adnan Abu Hasna, said that the agency still suffers from a $300 million financial deficit, which it considers as an existential […]
Jarah al-Hawamdeh, a Palestinian refugee in Jordan who lost one of his legs to bone cancer, has vowed to reach the summit of Mount Everest in hopes of saving his cash-strapped school. #MyFirstStep Would you […]
Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian primary school late Monday night in the Southern District of Hebron (Al-Khalil) that catered to 42 children. Israeli soldiers raided the small Bedouin community of Zanouta, and destroyed the school, […]
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI), the umbrella body for student unions through Ireland, voted today, Thursday, overwhelmingly to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, human rights, justice and equality in Palestine. […]
The Israeli Forces shut down the gates of Palestine Technical University, in al-Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron (Al-Khalil), in the occupied West Bank. In this video, the students tried to open the gate of their […]
Rua Qdeih, a 14-years-old girl from Gaza, received a medal from Pope Francis for her writings during Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza. The medal was delivered by Pierre Krähenbühl, Commissioner General of the United Nations […]
Palestinian student leader Omar Kiswani started on March 19 an indefinite hunger-strike in Israeli jail, protesting his detention, torture and interrogation without charges. omar kiswani on hunger strike in protest of his detention without charge […]
Israeli forces attacked a Palestinian school in the village of Tuqu’, to the southeast of the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Israeli occupation forces attacked Palestinian school in Taqu with over 10 tear […]
The young students of the Burin Secondary school, to the south of Nablus, were attacked today by Israeli occupation forces. ??#Palestine :: #Photos :: Students of Burin School left their class rooms after attacking their […]
Omar al-Kiswani, the president of the student council at Birzeit University, was arrested today by a group of undercover Israeli agents from inside the university campus. Palestinian Student Arrested Student union chairman, Omar al-Kiswani, at […]
Clashes broke out on Sunday between Israeli forces and Palestinian students of Palestine Technical University in the West Bank district of Hebron, with no injuries reported until the moment, according to director of students’ affairs […]
The Um Tuba schools from the village of Um Tuba, near Jerusalem, have started a general strike in protest against the Israeli Occupations Jerusalem Municipality’s neglect of students’ safety. The head of the Parents’ Committee […]
The Um Tuba schools from the village of Um Tuba, near Jerusalem, have started a general strike in protest against the Israeli Jerusalem Municipality’s neglect of students’ safety. The head of the Parents’ Committee in […]
In 2014, an Israeli bombardment completely destroyed Jamal Abdul Nasser School in Gaza. Today, the first ever “child-friendly school” opens on its ruins, thanks to an initiative by Education Above All Foundation, in partnership with […]
By Rima Najjar Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a movement that came into prominence, as Ali Abunimah documents in The Battle for Justice in Palestine: The Case for a Single Democratic State in Palestine (2014), after […]
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