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Katalo Yousef writes:
Good morning to the worker who toils to build this country, and to the farmer who sows his hope in the soil and watches over it with his eyes.
And a morning of jasmine and roses to our students, the hope of tomorrow and the torchbearers, and a thousand greetings and salutations to every steadfast Palestinian man and woman, firmly rooted in the land and everywhere.
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CROSSFIREARABIA – The Gaza Human Rights Center is warning about the continuation of the collapse of the educational system in the Gaza Strip in its fourth consecutive year. It stated the wide destruction of the schools, students and teachers and educational equipment has been one of the greatest victims of the Israeli genocide meted against the people of Gaza. In a statement, Sunday, the Center said the new school year comes for Gaza in the absence of any basis of an educational framework for thousands of children amid the destruction and displacement the people of Gaza were subjected to.
It stated and according to official figures that more than 21,051 male and female students were martyred during the start of this genocidal war while 19,886 pupils are no longer in school because of displacement, continual displacement, travel, detention and or injury. It added more than 532 male and female teachers in the government and private educational sectors and in UNRWA schools were killed. Also 769 employees in the Ministry of Education were also killed.
Before 7 October, 2023, the number of children in the school stream registered at 609,751 and it was expected they would reach 665,769 by the 2026/2027 scholastic year according to natural growth rates. But no more, for the initial estimates show the number of children eligible for school education stands at 625,832 according to the genocidal war as per the Palestine Information Center.
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Kites were flown across 11 cities in the Netherlands on Saturday in solidarity with children in Gaza. The events, organized by the Plant an Olive Tree Foundation, sought to draw attention to attacks on Gaza and protest Israeli threats of displacement and attacks against Palestinians over kites flown from the enclave that landed in Israeli settlements near the border. In Rotterdam, participants gathered at Noordereiland Square and flew kites in solidarity with children in Gaza. Children and adults decorated the kites with Palestinian flags and colors, as well as messages including “Free Palestine” and “Save Gaza.” Kites designed in the shape and colors of the Palestinian flag were also flown during the event. At the end of the demonstration, participants distributed leaflets to raise public awareness and provide information about the situation in Gaza. Anadolu
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Two Israeli colonists attacked on Saturday the town of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah.
Awad Abu Samra, a member of the Turmus Ayya municipal council, told WAFA that two colonists riding an ATV entered the eastern part of the town, about 100 meters from where U.S Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, was during his tour of the town..
Ambassador Huckabee had visited Turmus Ayya and met with municipal representatives and several residents who hold US citizenship and who had been subjected to attacks by Israeli colonists.
In remarks, Huckabee described settler violence against US citizens in Turmus’ayya in the West Bank as “a form of terrorism.”
He added that residents of Turmus’ayya have “legitimate grievances” and that he had come to listen to them, stressing that “Israel must ensure the security and safety of Palestinian citizens in the West Bank.” WAFA
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Israeli security forces forcibly displaced the entire population of three Palestine refugee camps in the occupied West Bank in January and February last year – and continue to prevent their return, in violation of international law, according to a new report by the UN human rights office, OHCHR.
The report said military, police and other forces deployed during Israel’s Operation Iron Wall offensive killed civilians, destroyed hundreds of homes, damaged roads and other infrastructure, cut off water and electricity, and blocked humanitarian access to the Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps.
Israeli forces went door to door ordering residents to leave.
Some displaced Palestinians told OHCHR that Israeli officers said there would be no more refugee camps and that they should “all go to Jordan”.
By October 2025, 52 per cent of structures in Jenin refugee camp, 48 per cent in Nur Shams and 36 per cent in Tulkarem had been destroyed or damaged.
The report said the large-scale, long-term and systematic displacement of over 33,000 Palestinians from the camps during the operation raises serious concerns of the crime against humanity of forcible transfer.
It said Israeli forces used airstrikes, armoured bulldozers and controlled detonations to render entire camps uninhabitable in the absence of imperative military necessity – actions it said also raise concerns of collective punishment and ethnic cleansing.
Some 102 Palestinians, including 21 children, were killed during the period covered by the report – 46 per cent of all killings by Israeli forces in the West Bank over that period.
Among them were Sondos Shalabi, who was eight months pregnant and was shot dead as she tried to drive away from Nur Shams camp, and ten-year-old Saddam Hussein Rajab, who was shot in the stomach in Tulkarem as he waited for his father to walk to the mosque with him.
UN human rights chief Volker Türk said the way the operation was conducted suggested its aim was to expel as many Palestinians as possible and make way for more illegal Israeli settlements.
He called on Israel to end what he described as its 59-year occupation of Palestinian territory and to comply with the International Court of Justice’s finding, more than two years ago, that it must end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible.
On 23 February 2025, Israel’s Defence Minister ordered the military to remain in the three camps and said displaced Palestinians would not be allowed to return.
The UN’s Palestine refugee relief agency, UNRWA, says around 33,362 people remain displaced as of July this year.
