RAMALLAH, March 6, 2018 (WAFA) – At least 80279 students and 4929 teachers and school employees were subjected to attacks by the Israeli occupation forces during 2017, said a report conducted by the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education.

It said that nine students were killed, while 603 students, and 55 teachers and school employees sustained live or rubber bullets wounds during Israeli raids into schools or by being run over by Israeli military jeeps, while dozens of students suffered from suffocation due to inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces against them.

The report said 311 students and teachers were detained from across the West Bank districts in 2017.

Meanwhile, 95 schools were a target of Israeli attacks, which are estimated to be 352 attacks in total, it said.

The attacks included breaking into schools and inflicting financial damages, the issuing of military notices against them, the firing of live and rubber bullets, stun grenades, and gas bombs and the partial or total disruption of schools’ days.

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