RAMALLAH, February 1, 2026 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation has continued to intensify policies aimed at depriving students in marginalized and Bedouin communities of their right to education, either by directly targeting schools or through the targeting of the communities themselves, resulting in schools being left without students.

One such case is the Shallal al-Auja school, affiliated with the Jericho Directorate of Education. After years of intense violence by Israeli colonists, residents of the local community have been subjected to forced displacement, consequently leaving the community’s school without students.

In rejection of what it described as a deliberate policy to empty the school of its students, the Jericho Directorate of Education exerted significant efforts to keep it running, including having the principal and teachers continue to attend the school for several days without students.

Even after displacing the community, the Ministry added, colonists have continued to break into the school, vandalize the property and write inciteful slogans and death threats on its walls. The school previously served around 140 students, from kindergarten through ninth grade.

The Ministry called upon all international partners and human rights organizations to intervene immediately to ensure that the children of Shallal Al-Auja School receive their full rights, including the right to education, as set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

It also urged all to take action to halt the forced displacement of the Palestinian communities, provide protection to the communities and schools and to hold the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for their violations against education

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