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Gaza Eases COVID Restrictions: Tawjihi Students Back in School (PHOTOS)

October 10, 2020

Gaza authorities began easing up COVID-19 restrictions Saturday, allowing Tawjihi students (final year of high school) to resume their studies, although under strict safety measures. Gaza’s Ministry of Education issued a statement stating that they […]

Palestine Urges International Intervention to Stop Israeli Demolition of West Bank School

October 9, 2020

Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh today called on international human rights organizations and international allies to intervene and stop the Israeli demolition of Ras al-Tin school, located east of Ramallah, following the Israeli Civil Administration’s cancelation […]

80-Year-Old Teacher Helps Students as COVID-19 Lockdown Persists in Gaza (PHOTOS)

October 4, 2020

Ikram al-Astal is an 80-year-old math teacher, who, despite old age, has stepped up to help students in Gaza City keep up with their studies, as the COVID-19 lockdown persisted in the besieged Strip. At […]

Liberation Through a Pen: Education in Occupied Palestine, Turtle Island and Cuba

July 28, 2020

In a recent Facebook post, author Susan Abulhawa said that it’s hard not to believe that “with all their privilege and resources, cannot imagine a single alternative to educating their children except to reopen schools […]

EU, Denmark, PA to Fund 16 Infrastructure Projects in Area C (VIDEO)

July 15, 2020

The EU will begin a €5.8 million ($6.63 million) construction agreement with the Palestinian Authority in ‘Area C’ of the occupied West Bank, according to a statement from the Office of the EU Representative in […]

Israeli Soldiers Raid School, Terrorize Students near Ramallah (VIDEO)

January 19, 2020

Israeli forces raided today a school and terrorized its students in the village Deir Nizam, near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. Israeli Soldiers raided the school and ransacked classrooms, causing […]

Israeli Army Demolishes School Foundations East of Yatta

January 16, 2020

Israeli forces today demolished the foundations of a new school in Southern West Bank, according to Rateb Jabour, a member of the National and Popular Committee Resisting the Wall and Settlements. Jabour told WAFA that […]

Israel’s Renewed Campaign against UNRWA is an Attack on Palestinian Education and Liberation

January 10, 2020

The international community has still not caught up with or refuses to acknowledge, Israel’s commitment to countering each purported victory for the Palestinians with yet more violations. These countermeasures implemented by Israel, notably to prevent […]

UNRWA Fires 17 Teachers Due to Budget Deficit

January 9, 2020

UNRWA has sacked 17 teachers from its schools in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Safa news agency reported yesterday. UNRWA claimed that the teachers were surplus to necessity. However, the human rights group, Shahed, said that the […]

Brown University Votes for BDS: US University Wants to Divest from Israeli Business

December 3, 2019

Brown University yesterday voted in favor of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to financially pressure Israel into ending the occupation of the Palestinian territories and allow full equality for its Arab-Palestinian […]

Israeli Forces Assault Palestinian Students near Nablus

December 1, 2019

Israeli forces on Sunday morning assaulted students and prevented them from attending their school in the village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, local sources said. Israeli […]

Israel to Wipe out Palestinian Curriculum in Jerusalem

October 22, 2019

Up to 100,000 Palestinian students are facing the threat of using distorted schoolbooks in occupied Jerusalem, Deputy Palestinian Education Minister Basri Saleh said on Sunday. According to Arab48, during a meeting held in Cairo, Basri said […]

Jewish Settlers Uproot Olive Trees, Attack School near Nablus (VIDEO)

October 7, 2019

Fanatic Jewish settlers today copped off dozens of olive trees in the village of Burin, to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, said local sources. The sources said that settlers from […]

Palestinian Refugee Students Must Not be Incidental to Humanitarian Endeavors

September 11, 2019

Despite financial setbacks caused by political agendas and misconduct allegations, the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) ensured that its schools opened on time for the new academic year. Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl described education as […]

PCBS: Palestine Literacy Rate up to 97.2% (VIDEO)

September 9, 2019

Illiteracy rates among Palestinians aged 15 years and above fell from 13.9 percent in 1997 to 2.8 percent in 2018, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said. In a report issued yesterday to mark […]

Palestinian Student Who Was Denied Entry Arrives at Harvard

September 3, 2019

A seventeen-year-old Palestinian student from Lebanon who was denied entry into the United States last month has been granted access to enter the country in time to begin classes at Harvard University today. When Ismail Ajjawi […]

Palestinian Harvard Student Deported for Friends’ Facebook Posts (VIDEO)

August 28, 2019

A Palestinian student’s plans to start his freshman year at Harvard was thwarted by Boston immigration officials after they allegedly read posts on his friends’ Facebook that “opposed” the US.  Ismail B. Ajjawi, 17, from […]

Israel Stops Construction of New School in Bedouin Village under Rightwing Pressure

August 26, 2019

The Israeli government has moved to stop construction of a school in an unrecognized Bedouin Palestinian village, after pressure from a notorious right-wing group, reported Haaretz. According to the report, a Finance Ministry department that […]

Gaza’s Universities: Financial Crisis Threatens Continuity of Work

July 26, 2019

Palestinian universities in the Gaza Strip are suffering from a severe financial crisis that threatens the continuity of their work next year, academics and university administrators said on Thursday. On the sidelines of a meeting […]

Palestinian Children’s Right to Education Denied in Israeli Prisons

July 9, 2019

Palestinian children from Jerusalem arrested by Israeli occupation forces are subjected to “a deliberate policy to de-educate”, reported prisoners’ rights group Addameer. According to Addameer, “Over 800 Palestinian children from Jerusalem were arrested in 2018”, and […]

Israeli Students Forced to Pass Propaganda Course before Overseas School Trips

July 8, 2019

The Israeli government is compelling high school students to pass an online propaganda course before being allowed to participate in overseas class trips, a course promoting “racist ideology”. Legal rights center Adalah has written to the Education […]

Israel Postpones Auction of Palestinian Classrooms Donated by EU

June 5, 2019

Israeli authorities have delayed the public auction of prefab classrooms donated by the European Union (EU) to Palestinians, reported Haaretz. The classrooms, as well as other equipment, were confiscated on the grounds they had been erected […]

Israel to Sell Prefab Palestinian Classrooms Donated by EU

May 31, 2019

Israel is to auction two prefabricated classrooms which were donated to Palestinian schoolchildren by the EU, the Guardian reported today. Occupation forces tore down and confiscated the classrooms in October last year. Some 49 students were expected to use […]

13 Gaza Schools Severely Damaged by Israeli Airstrikes

May 7, 2019

Thirteen Palestinian schools in the besieged Gaza Strip were severely damaged by the Israeli airstrikes, which claimed the lives of 27 Palestinians and injured at least 154 others, on Tuesday. The Palestinian Ministry of Education […]

Israeli Forces Attack Urif School, Dozens of Students Suffocate (VIDEO)

April 14, 2019

Dozens of Palestinian students suffered from severe tear-gas inhalation, on Sunday, after Israeli forces raided a high school in the village of Urif, in the occupied West Bank district of Nablus. According to local sources, […]

Harvard Undergrad Council to Fund Pro-Palestine Event

April 2, 2019

Harvard University’s Undergraduate Council (UC) voted to allocate the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) $2,050 to host Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) at Sunday’s general meeting. According to student newspaper the Crimson, “The bill to fund IAW passed […]

Israeli Undercover Forces Arrest 3 Palestinian Students in West Bank

March 27, 2019

A group of Israeli undercover forces yesterday broke into Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank and arrested three students, taking them to an unknown location, Arab48 reported. Israeli occupation forces also carried out wide-scale raids across […]

Jewish Settlers Raid 2 Palestinian Elementary Schools

March 26, 2019

A group of Jewish settlers attempted to raid two Palestinian elementary schools, on Tuesday afternoon, in the Tuqu village, southeast of the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem. Locals told Ma’an that heavily armed […]

Hebron: 30 Palestinian Students Suffocate by Israeli Tear-Gas

February 21, 2019

Thirty Palestinian students suffered tear-gas suffocation, on Thursday morning, as Israeli forces and settlers attacked students of an elementary school in the Old City of Hebron (Al-Khalil) in the southern occupied West Bank. Medical sources […]

PA Cuts Salaries of Hundreds of Doctors, Teachers in Gaza

February 12, 2019

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has cut the salaries of 263 employees from Gaza’s Ministry of Health, most of whom are doctors, as well as a further 400 employees from the Education Ministry, mainly teachers. Spokespersons […]

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