Palestinian schools in occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem) are observing a general strike in protest at attempts by occupation authorities in the holy city to censor and edit Palestinian textbooks, as well as introduce an Israeli curriculum in classrooms.
Most of the 280 Palestinian schools in east Al-Quds, with some 115,000 students from kindergarten to grade 12, were observing the strike, Al-Jazeera reported on Monday.
In a joint press release on Sunday, the unified parents committee and the Palestinian national and Islamic powers in Al-Quds called for a full strike and demanded international institutions step in to protect Palestinian education.
Journalists and residents shared dozens of images of empty classrooms and closed schools on Monday morning.
Israeli Ministry of Education in July revoked the teaching licenses of six schools in east Al-Quds for a year due to what it called ‘incitement’ in Palestinian textbooks.
The parents committee said it will continue the strike and escalate it if the Israeli occupation municipality of Al-Quds does not stop interfering in students’ “right to learn their narrative and history as it is rather than distorted according to the narrative of the Israeli occupiers,” the official WAFA news agency reported.
Source: Al-Jazeera and Palestinian media
