3 schools serving 1,000 students, which Israel turned into a war zone
Students of "Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya"...a goal pursued by the occupation outside and inside schools
Yasser Ghazi: "Dozens of students have been exposed, during the current academic year, to rubber bullets and tear gas canisters."
Teachers and parents come to protect the students from the soldiers.
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Settlers face the students of the village of eastern milk.
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The process of shooting and gas bombs at the entrance to the village of milk.
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100 Israeli attacks against the students of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya village this academic year.
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Student Omar Owais after his release after his arrest for hours.
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Every day, in the early morning hours, hundreds of students in the village of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya, south of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, head to the main street between Nablus and the city of Ramallah, where the occupation soldiers are located, and where the village’s schools are located. However, the students do not They complete their daily educational journey to school, because the Israeli forces are blocking their way and preventing them from passing through this highway, under the pretext of security precautions.
Here, the students are forced to change their way, fearing that they will be exposed to live bullets and tear gas canisters by the heavily armed Israeli forces, to take long-distance bumpy roads, in order to reach the classrooms, despite endangering their lives.
These rugged secondary roads lie between the borders of the settlements that besiege the eastern al-Lubban and confiscate its lands, namely “Rahalim”, “Elleh”, “Levona”, “Shilo” and “Ariel”, as the settlers spread extensively in their vicinity, to block the students’ path , who face grave violations and numerous attacks, under heavy guard that soldiers provide to the settlers, in order to prevent the students from reaching their three schools, which are Al-Sadiyah Al-Laban School, Al-Lubban-Al-Sawiya Secondary School, and the Girls’ Secondary School.
In addition, dozens of settlers often surrounded the three milk schools and gathered in front of their doors, storming them under heavy guard by the soldiers of the occupation army.
assault scenes
The scene of the attack on the students of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya village, is a model for the daily life inside the Palestinian village, where approximately 1,000 students face the danger of death or injury every day. While going to their schools and returning to their homes, they are exposed to many violations by settlers, and other practices committed by the occupation soldiers, Those who assault the students of the village of Al-Lubban by beating them with the butts of their guns while they are walking to the classrooms.
Since the beginning of the current academic year in the Palestinian territories, al-Lubban al-Sharqiya has witnessed the occurrence of more than 100 Israeli attacks against students and schools in the village. The soldiers stormed schools and flooded them with poison and tear gas canisters, attacked and beat teachers, and closed their gates with locks, the most dangerous of which was shooting towards disciples directly, injuring several of them.
The child Omar Muhammad Owais, in the sixth grade, was the last victim of the brutal attack and deliberate targeting of village students. The occupation forces detained him on March 21, as he was passing through the military checkpoint at the entrance to his village, heading to his school.
At seven o’clock in the morning, while the child Owais was waiting for the soldiers to allow him and all the students to reach the classrooms, he was eating the breakfast sandwich. on the soldiers.
Omar remained in this condition from seven in the morning until the end of school hours after noon, when he was detained inside the military jeep, then the forces released him after he was beaten and detained, and he fell into a state of intense fear.
Mass detention and arrest
Al-Laban-Al-Sawiya Secondary School, which hosts 420 male and female students studying in the sixth semester until the high school stage, is considered the most exposed to the attacks of the occupation forces, especially the storming of its courtyards and classrooms, the last of which was during the current academic year.
"Emirates Today" met with the director of Al-Laban School - Al-Sawiya, Yasser Ghazi, where he explained that the school is located in the middle of the main street, near the military occupation barriers spread along the road, and as a result, its students face on a daily basis the harshest types of deliberate aggression by the occupation soldiers, to prevent them and impede their access to school seats.
He points out that his school has been subjected to grave violations over the past years, but this year the attacks have increased in an uncharacteristic manner, explaining that these attacks begin as soon as the students reach the main street, 1,500 meters from the school, when they are met by the first military checkpoint, among the Dozens of checkpoints scattered along the street, and at the entrance to the main village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya.
The director of Al-Laban School - Al-Sawiya says: “I and the teaching staff are present daily at different distances from the street, from the school door to the entrance to the village, in order to secure protection for the students, but the occupation implements its arbitrary practices against the students, the simplest of which is detaining them collectively in front of the military checkpoint, and after hours have passed. Many are allowed to pass, and this causes them to be late for school.”
He added that "dozens of students have been exposed during the current academic year to rubber bullets and tear gas canisters, while female students suffer more severely, especially as their schools are closer to the presence of soldiers and their military checkpoints, as they cross through the barriers to their classrooms among the soldiers' guns."
The occupation’s attacks against students are not limited to this point, but the matter has reached to the pursuit and arrest of students, especially those studying in the basic stages, and this is what happened with the child Hassan Daoud, who has a disability, who is studying in the ninth semester inside the walls of the Al-Lubban School - Al-Sawiya.
Regarding this, the director of Al-Lubban School - Al-Sawiya said: “Last November, the occupation forces arrested the child Hassan Daoud, who suffers from difficulty in movement and suffers from an imbalance in his body, while he was on his way from his home to the school, under the pretext of insulting the soldiers and throwing stones. against them, although he has great difficulty speaking and moving.” He added: “The soldiers took the student Hassan to the interrogation center, and he spent two days in detention with the occupation soldiers, who only released him after forcing his father to pay a fine of 1,200 shekels, despite the deterioration of his condition. His family's financial condition.
Military “jeeps” in schools
Here, the attacks are still outside the walls of the schools of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya village, and turning to the talk about the other side of the deliberate Israeli targeting of students and their educational path, the director of al-Lubban School - al-Sawiya confirms that the incursions by Israeli soldiers into the schoolyards and classrooms of the village's schools are many, as his school was stormed five times in a short time. The first time was through soldiers infiltrating the school’s walls, under the pretext of throwing stones at settlers’ vehicles as they crossed the main street.
Ghazi says: "On one occasion, we were surprised by soldiers present at the school door in order to arrest a student, under the pretext of throwing stones at a military jeep. When we refused, they stormed the school yards and fired tear gas canisters between the classrooms, students and teachers."
He added, "Several times, military (jeeps) stormed the school yards, under the pretext of pursuing a student, and threw tear gas canisters, which caused great panic among the students and the teaching staff, in addition to causing many of them to suffocate."
• Dozens of settlers often besiege the three schools and storm them, under heavy guard by the soldiers of the occupation army.
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