{"id":174225,"date":"2019-02-01T20:30:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T20:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=174225"},"modified":"2019-02-06T10:15:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:15:44","slug":"palestinian-childrens-education-deeply-impacted-by-interference-around-west-bank-schools-un-warns","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/palestinian-childrens-education-deeply-impacted-by-interference-around-west-bank-schools-un-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Children\u2019s Education Impacted by “Interference” Around West Bank Schools – UN News Item"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On 12 July 2018 in the State of Palestine, 8-year old Hamid looks out over the old city of Hebron from the roof of his house. Checkpoints punctuate Hebron\u2019s old city, part of the area known as H2, and affect the movement of people, including access to education as many children must pass one or more checkpoints on their way to school.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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30 January 2019<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Culture and Education<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alarmed by a high number of reported incidents of interference in or near Palestinian schools in the West Bank since the beginning of the school year in September, the UN called on Wednesday for them to be better-protected from the effects of Israeli occupation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cClassrooms should be a sanctuary from conflict, where children can learn and develop into active citizens\u201d,\u00a0said\u00a0Jamie McGoldrick, UN\u00a0Humanitarian Coordinator<\/a>\u00a0for the region in the joint statement with\u00a0UNICEF<\/a>\u00a0Special Representative, Genevieve Boutin, and UN educational, scientific and cultural body\u00a0UNESCO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Highlighting the impact of the incidents on safe access to education, the statement noted\u00a0\u201cthreats of demolition, clashes on the way to school between students and security forces, teachers stopped at checkpoints, and violent actions of Israeli forces and settlers on some occasions\u201d.<\/p>\n

In 2018 alone, the UN documented 111 different cases of interference to education in the West Bank affecting more than 19,000 children.<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren should never be the target of violence and must not be exposed to any form of violence\u201d, said the two senior UN officials in the region, appealing for a safe learning environment and the right to quality education for thousands of Palestinian children.<\/p>\n

Settlement activity \u2018clear rebuff\u2019 to two-State solution says UN rights expert<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The\u00a0Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory<\/a>\u00a0also issued\u00a0a statement<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday, calling on the international community to \u201ctake decisive action in response to Israel\u2019s recent intensification of settlement activities in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which amounts to a clear rebuff of a two-State solution\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the settlements steps by Israel are left unanswered by the international community, we will be driving past the last exit on the road to annexation\u201d, Michael Lynk added, stressing that the settlements \u201care the source of a range of persistent human rights violations\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the last year has seen \u201ca marked rise in incidents of violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank\u201d whereby \u201cin many cases, Israeli forces, obligated to protect the Palestinian population under international humanitarian law, stand idly by while olive trees are destroyed, livelihoods are damaged, and even while people are injured or, at worst, killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the events in the West Bank village of Al Mughayyir on 26 January were a \u201csobering example of this extremely troubling phenomenon, where a Palestinian villager was shot dead in the presence of Israeli settlers and soldiers. These incidents not only violate numerous human rights such as the rights to life, security of the person, and freedom of movement of Palestinians, but also serve to expand the area of land over which Israeli settlers have control,\u201d Mr. Lynk stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UNICEF\/Ahed Izhiman On 12 July 2018 in the State of Palestine, 8-year old Hamid looks out over the old city of Hebron from the roof of his house. Checkpoints punctuate Hebron\u2019s old city, part of the area known as H2, and affect the movement of people, including access to education as many children must pass […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2477],"document-source":[1897],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2033,2441,1741,2137],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-174225","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-news-item","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-subject-children","document-subject-education-and-culture","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-settlements","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/174225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/174225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=174225"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=174225"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=174225"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=174225"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=174225"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=174225"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=174225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}