The Israeli district court in Occupied Jerusalem approved on Wednesday the immediate demolition of a European-funded school in the Ein Samiya community east of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
The Ein Samiya School was inaugurated with European funding in mid-January in coordination with the Palestinian ministry of education.
Meanwhile lawyers for the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center’s submitted a petition on behalf of the Palestinian who donated the piece of land for the building of this school against a demolition order already issued on April 28.
However the court’s judge today gave the petitioners two options either to carry out the demolition measure at their own expense or pay exorbitant fines and court fees if an Israeli bulldozer came and knocked down the school.
The local residents for their part appealed to international organizations and European diplomatic missions to urgently intervene to prevent the Israeli occupation authority from demolishing the school.
