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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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