Schools

Displaced Palestinians seek shelter on the campus of the Islamic University in northern Gaza, March 24, 2025. (Ruwaida Amer)
PHOTOS: A ruined university in northern Gaza becomes a refuge
Forced out of their homes once more, thousands of Palestinians have crowded into the Islamic University campus, west of Gaza City — where burning books is the only way to boil water, heat food, and stay warm.
By Ruwaida Amer April 15, 2025
Palestinian students pass an Israeli military jeep on their way home from school in the village of At-Tuwani, Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank, September 28, 2022. (Oren Ziv)
In Masafer Yatta, our very right to education is under fire
Amid Israeli settler attacks, military raids, roadblocks, and an economic crisis, simply getting to school can be a challenge. But still we fight for our students.
By Mahmoud Al-Omour November 7, 2024
"Pioneers of Hope", an educational initiative in a displacement camp in Deir Al-Balah. (Ruwaida Amer)
For Gaza’s schoolchildren, another year of destruction, loss, and uncertainty
Makeshift schools in tent camps have served thousands of Palestinian children. But can they survive the approaching winter and Israel’s intensifying assaults?
By Ruwaida Amer and Ibtisam Mahdi October 24, 2024
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A Palestinian woman sits in front of the damaged entrance to Al-Aqsa University in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, January 26, 2024. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)
The decimation of Gaza’s academia is ‘impossible to quantify’
With thousands of faculty and students likely killed and campuses destroyed, Palestinian universities in the Strip are barely surviving Israel’s scholasticide.
By Ibtisam Mahdi July 26, 2024
View of an empty school in Nablus, occupied West Bank, during a strike of Palestinian teachers, March 7, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
Defying PA repression, Palestinian teachers lead biggest strike in years
Amid an economic crisis caused by Israeli policies and PA corruption, teachers are bringing schools and streets to a standstill until their demands are met.
By Basel Adra April 18, 2023
An excavator belonging to the Jerusalem Municipality carries out demolitions near the Salhiyeh family home, Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, January 17, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
East Jerusalem does need schools. But not on the ruins of Palestinian homes
Far from serving the needs of Sheikh Jarrah’s residents, the Jerusalem Municipality’s excuse for expelling the Salhiyeh family is entirely cynical.
By Orly Noy January 26, 2022
Palestinian school students stand in a destroyed classroom in the damaged Sobhi Abu Karsh Basic school in a destroyed quarter of the Shujayea neighborood, Gaza city, September 15, 2014. The school year has started with a three-week delay, due to the latest Israeli offensive during which 29 schools have been totally destroyed, and around 190 damaged. The first weeks are dedicated to recreational activities to help children to overcome the trauma due the the seven-week Israeli military offensive. 2,131 Palestinians were killed, including 501 children, and an estimated 18,000 housing units have been either destroyed or severely damaged, leaving more than 108,000 people homeless.
PHOTOS: Amid rubble and trauma, Gaza goes back to school
With displaced families still living in some schools, and despite severe damage to classrooms, Gaza’s children return to school after a summer of Israeli bombardment. Photos by: Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri/Activestills.org Text by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler Despite damaged classrooms and destroyed schools, Gaza’s school year began this week after delays due to the recent…
By Activestills September 18, 2014
Palestinian students studying for exams in East Jerusalem. (Illustrative photo by: Shutterstock.com)
An education in inequality for East Jerusalem’s children
The number of classrooms, the availability of counselors and the numbers of dropout prevention programs constitute a grievous violation of the right to education for tens of thousands of Palestinian schoolchildren in Jerusalem. By Betty Herschman In cities around the world, most parents agonize about their kids’ first day of school. They worry about whether…
By +972 Magazine September 2, 2013
No Bullying Allowed photo; flickr by Working Word
Kids’ wars: Bullying, now and then
“She’s stupid and ugly!” shouted one of my third graders in an outburst of rage and tears. She sat hunched over, fuming, pointing her back directly at another of my students who had wronged her in some mysterious way I didn’t manage to understand. “Shut your face!” retorted the supposed perpetrator. In these moments, which…
By Ori J. Lenkinski February 27, 2012
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