The Palestinian ministry of education has strongly denounced the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) for raiding two schools east of Jerusalem and attacking their students describing the attack as “a crime.”
In a press release on Thursday the ministry explained that Israeli soldiers stormed in the morning Jawaharlal Nehru High School and Abu Dis Elementary School in Abu Dis town east of Jerusalem amid intensive gunfire.
It added that the soldiers fired live ammunition at a student and injured him and arrested another during the raids on schools.
Several students and teachers also suffered from inhaling tear gas during the raids.
The soldiers forced all students and teachers to evacuate the schools and prevented crews from the Palestinian military liaison office the civil defense and the Abu Dis municipal council as well as relatives of students from going in.
Education minister Sabri Saidam condemned Israel’s repeated raids on Palestinian schools and its suppression of students and teachers.
Saidam called on media and human rights groups to urgently intervene to curb Israel’s violations against the educational process in the occupied Palestinian territories and protect the students’ right to reach their school.
