RAMALLAH,
Thursday, November 25, 2021 (WAFA) –Israeli forces and settlers Thursday
morning assaulted Palestinian students on their way to school in al-Lubban Ash-Sharqiya village,
south of Nablus city, according to local sources.
Head
of the village municipal council, Ya‘coub Owais, said that dozens of settlers, under military
protection, stormed the village entrance and deliberately obstructed the
arrival of students to their schools, located on the main road connecting
Ramallah city to Nablus city.
The
soldiers, he added, opened fire at the students and their families who came to
make sure that their children safely made it schools, hitting several with
rubber-coated steel bullets and causing other to suffocate from tear gas.
Attacks
on education by Israeli military forces and Israeli settlers in the Palestine
constitute grave violations of children’s rights to education and development.
These attacks are particularly prevalent in the most vulnerable areas of the
West Bank – Area C, H2 and Jerusalem.
Over
700,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only colonial settlements across occupied East
Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.
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