TOUBAS, Thursday, November 08, 2018 (WAFA) – Classes at an elementary school in Khirbet Ibzeik, in the northern Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, were disrupted on Thursday when soldiers raided the school and took down a tent used as an administrative office, according to the school principal Saed Qabaha.

He said that soldiers brought along a bulldozer and an ambulance when they raided the campus and dismantled and seized the tent used for the administration. The soldiers also blocked roads leading to the school and prevented students and teachers from reaching it.

The tent was set up after the army dismantled and seized two caravans in the school last month.

The school, referred to as Challenge School 10, has three classrooms for students from grade one until six and four teachers.

Israel does not allow Palestinians to build in the Jordan Valley, which is classified as Area C that makes up over 60 percent the area of the occupied West Bank, and often demolishes whatever they build there under the pretext of construction without permit, something Palestinians are never able to get from the Israeli military government that administers and controls Area C.

The Palestinian Ministry of Education built what they called Challenge Schools throughout Area C to help students in that area get proper education despite Israeli efforts to prevent that.

M.K.