The Parents Committee in the Israeli occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Issawiya suspended on Tuesday classes in all schools to protest Israeli police brutality against schoolchildren.
The Parents Committee decided in a meeting on Monday night to suspend classes in all schools starting Tuesday and until further notice.
The parents say police regularly attack schoolchildren when they leave their classrooms. The latest such assault occurred on Monday when police fired tear gas and rubber-coated metal bullets at students from a short distance causing critical injuries one of them reported in critical condition as he underwent a surgery to remove his spleen.
The committee decided to step up protest moves in response to Israeli police harassment and brutality.
Israeli police often crack down on Palestinian schoolchildren and search their schoolbags when they are on their way to/back from school swelling tension in the area.
