The “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle was included in the “National and Civic Education” subject in the Jordanian curriculum (social networking sites)

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The step taken by the National Center for Curriculum Development in Jordan (an official institution affiliated with the Ministry of Education) to include the Battle of “Al-Aqsa Flood” in the “National and Civic Education” course for tenth grade students received positive reactions, and activists, educators, and school students expressed their satisfaction. For the government action documenting the events of October 7, 2023 in Palestine.

The book, which Al Jazeera Net reviewed, referred to the violent Israeli reaction to the entry of the Palestinian resistance into the Gaza Strip, which was represented by a comprehensive destructive attack on the Gaza Strip.

National Curriculum Centre. In National Education for the tenth grade,


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Reviving the issue

Educationally, experts believe that the step of the National Center for Curriculum Development in Jordan is an important matter after the absence of the Palestinian issue during the past years, especially since the events of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” have revived in the hearts of the current generation of school students and youth alike, the spirit of struggle and belief in the role of resistance. And stand by the Palestinian right.

The new curriculum lists the development of the Palestinian issue and its roots, Israeli ambitions in Palestine, and the violations to which the Palestinian people are exposed, in addition to Jordan’s continued shouldering of its responsibilities towards Palestine, and its defense of the issue in international forums.

Commenting on this, a member of the National Center for Curriculum Development, former Minister of Education, Dr. Ibrahim Badran, said, “Adding the events of October 7, 2023 does not constitute any obstacle, and it is a step that is consistent with the thinking of the Ministry of Education.”

He added to Al Jazeera Net: “The step taken by the National Center for Curriculum Development to talk about the Palestinian issue, the Jordanian role in defending the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and what the Israeli occupation is doing in the Palestinian territories, especially in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, comes in the context of talking about the development of the Palestinian issue.” It is consistent with the thinking of the Ministry, the Supreme Curricula Center, and the Jordanian State.”

Educational expert Dr. Hoda Al-Atoum described the center’s step by including the events of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” in the tenth grade curriculum as “positive and important,” adding to Al Jazeera Net that “talking about resistance and the Al-Aqsa Flood in the tenth grade curriculum comes at a time when the occupation’s curricula are full of By talking about the Arabs as enemies of Israel, and emphasizing the historical enmity between us and them, there is nothing less than an emphasis on our part that we seek to create a generation that believes in what the Palestinian resistance did on October 7 through our teaching curricula, and to restore the spirit to the Palestinian issue in the educational curricula.” .

Al-Atoum expressed her hope that the Ministry of Education would not delete the paragraph that talks about the Al-Aqsa Flood in the coming period as a result of pressures that the National Center for Curriculum Development, or even the Ministry of Education, might be exposed to, explaining that “the Al-Aqsa Flood operation had a great impact that cannot be erased on the hearts of people.” The new generations have many questions about the absence of the issue from their curricula, and the weakness of the narratives that talk about it.”

Educational expert Hoda Al-Atoum praises the addition of the Al-Aqsa Flood to the educational curricula (Al-Jazeera)

Popular satisfaction

Social media pioneers shared the new step by adding a special paragraph about the Al-Aqsa flood, and increasing the dose of talking about the Palestinian issue in school curricula. They expressed their pride in documenting the incident that will be immortalized in the minds of future generations throughout history.

School teacher Nour al-Din Nadeem attributed the government's move to include the Al-Aqsa Flood in school curricula to "a change in the Jordanian position toward the relationship with the occupation."

He said: “We are shifting from a relationship within the framework of the “Wadi Araba” agreement, which obligates Jordan to unjust conditions at the expense of the Palestinian cause and its national interests in water and energy, to another type, even if it is in an educational subject affiliated with the Ministry of Education, through a paragraph of 5 lines. You talk about the Al-Aqsa flood, although this does not reflect the extent of the pain that the Palestinians are suffering in the Gaza Strip, but the step is positive.”

Nadim expressed his surprise that the book has not reached the hands of students and teachers yet, even though it was added to the official website of the Ministry of Education. He added, “Some say that the delay in receiving the book to students is related to printing only.”

Teacher Nour El-Din Nadeem: Al-Aqsa flood represents a positive step even in educational matters (Al-Jazeera)

Positive vision

Hind Al-Qaryouti, the mother of a tenth grade student, saw that the Al-Aqsa flood operation raised many questions in her son about the Palestinian issue, the reality of the conflict with the Israeli enemy, and the importance of defending the homeland, and thus the interaction of young people and school students with the Palestinian issue after the Al-Aqsa flood became completely different. By being keen to participate in the marches in support of Gaza, and responding to popular boycott campaigns for the products of the Israeli occupation and its supporters, as she put it.

The paragraph mentioned in the Jordanian textbook said: “Israel ignored repeated UN Security Council resolutions, refused to withdraw from the occupied Arab territories, and continued its persecution of the Palestinian Arab people, committing massacres against them day after day, and attacking Al-Aqsa Mosque, which prompted the Palestinian resistance movement in the Gaza Strip.” Gaza led to the storming of the Israeli settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023 AD, and the capture of numbers of Israeli settlers and soldiers, which sparked a violent reaction from the Israeli enemy represented by a comprehensive destructive attack on the Gaza Strip, resulting in tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded, and the destruction of... Infrastructure, including schools, mosques, churches, hospitals, and civilian housing.”

The “Al-Aqsa Flood” is an operation launched by the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip against Israel at dawn on Saturday, October 7, 2023, and included a land, sea and air attack and the infiltration of the resistance into several settlements in the Gaza envelope.

Source: Al Jazeera