A crew from the Israeli education ministry escorted by police forces stormed on Wednesday al-Eman School in Occupied Jerusalem and searched students’ bags to look for Palestinian textbooks.
According to local sources a number of parents organized a sit-in outside the Ibrahimia College in the holy city in solidarity with al-Eman School and in protest at the ongoing Israeli targeting of the Palestinian educational sector.
The protesters expressed their condemnation of the Israeli raid on al-Eman School in the morning to search for Palestinian curriculum textbooks.
A few months ago Israeli minister of education Yifat Shasha-Biton revoked the licenses of six schools in east Jerusalem claiming she took such step because of the incitement against Israel and its army in Palestinian school textbooks.
At the time she summoned the principals of those schools for a hearing and then informed them of her decision to cancel the permanent licenses of their schools and give them conditional licenses for a year as a chance to make changes to their curriculums.
In 2015 the IOA had forced a number of Palestinian schools in the holy city to adopt the Israeli curriculum.
