For 2nd day in row, Israeli forces attack Palestinian schoolchildren in Nablus
Nablus (QNN)- Earlier on Thursday, Israeli occupation forces attacked, intimidated and obstructed the movement of Palestinian schoolchildren to their school in Nablus in the occupied West Bank for the second day in a row.
The occupation forces earlier today raided the village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya in Nablus and stationed at its entrances.
They were seen harassing the Palestinian students in the village while they were in their way to their school and firing sound bombs towards them.
The forces also obstructed the movement of the students to the as-Sawiya / al-Lubban ash-Sharqiyya school by stopping them.
Yesterday, the forces also attacked the students of the same school and obstructed their movement.
Israeli forces’ attacks against Palestinian students has increased lately and such attacks on schools and other education-related incidents, including attacks on educational personnel, threats of attacks, military use of schools, and other interferences with education, significantly impacted Palestinian children’s right to access education.
Between 7 and 20 September, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory said that over 55 Palestinian pupils and teachers in six different schools were tear gassed and attacked by the Israeli forces.
In 2019, the United Nations documented 257 education-related incidents in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip that impacted children’s right to access education.
Palestinian children living under Israeli military occupation in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip are routinely denied many rights: right to life, right to education, right to adequate housing, and are denied access to healthcare, among other rights denials inherent in a decades-long Israeli military occupation with no end in sight.
