JERUSALEM, Monday, September 4, 2023 (WAFA) - The Israeli occupation police today confiscated Palestinian curriculum textbooks from students while they were heading to their school located inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, according to local sources.

They said that the police stopped the children, searched their schoolbags, and seized the books published by the Palestinian Ministry of Education taught for years as part of the Palestinian curriculum claiming also the books had a Palestinian flag printed on them.

The police seized a few days ago school books while they were being sent to a private school that teaches the Palestinian curriculum in the Old City and arrested the driver of the vehicle that was transporting the books and one of the school employees.

The seizure of books was denounced by Palestinians as a new racist attack on Palestinian schools and curricula, stressing the right of people under occupation to choose their own curricula according to what is guaranteed to them by international conventions.

M.K.