The Palestinian Education Ministry documented Israeli violations against 89799 Palestinian learners and 5528 teaching staff members in 2016.
According to a Tuesday report by the Palestinian Ministry of Education 26 Palestinian learners were killed by the Israeli occupation forces while 1810 others and 101 instructors and employees were left wounded.
At the same time 198 learners and teaching staff members were arrested by the Israeli forces.
The report further documented Israeli attacks against 162 Palestinian schools. The attacks were carried out using live ammunition teargas canisters or/and rubber bullets. As a result several schools have been partially or totally put out of operation.
Crackdowns at Israeli-run checkpoints led to the suspension of 4878 classes.
Seven learners enrolled at Jerusalem schools along with a staff member were meanwhile subjected to house confinement.
60 schools had also been subjected to aggressive assaults by the Israeli army using teargas grenades and bullet fire. Cases of heavy beating against schoolchildren and tutors had also been recorded during those attacks.
Nine demolition or stop construction orders were also handed out to a number of Palestinian schools across the occupied territories.
The Education Ministry appealed to all human rights institutions to take urgent action vis-à-vis such Israeli aggressions and to expose Israel’s incessant violations of international law and of Palestinians’ right to free and safe education.
