Thousands of Palestinian children in East Jerusalem not in school
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Thousands of Palestinian children in East Jerusalem do not attend school as there is no room for them in the state school system, parents and rights groups said, adding that the drop-out rate remained the highest in the Israeli school system.
"It is a disgraceful situation," said Abed al-Karim Lafi, head of the Union of East Jerusalem Parents' Committees.
According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), there is a shortage of about 1,500 classrooms in East Jerusalem, which means only about half of all Palestinian children in the city attend state schools.
The rest - about 40,000 pupils – are in expensive private education or rely on various substandard forms of unofficial schooling.
"In the past two years, we have built schools in East Jerusalem at an accelerated pace," Israel's Minister of Education Yuli Tamir told reporters on 10 September as she and Mayor Uri Lupolianksy inaugurated a new school in Um Lison, a village on the city outskirts.
"All we can do is keep building," Tamir said, adding that "we will build wherever there is land".
However, this too is a contentious point for the Palestinians, who said they had to give up their private land for schools as the state did not use its own land reserves.
"Why do they need our land when they can use [the Israel Land] Administration's land?" demanded one parent at the new school.
"It is a disgraceful situation," said Abed al-Karim Lafi, head of the Union of East Jerusalem Parents' Committees.
According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), there is a shortage of about 1,500 classrooms in East Jerusalem, which means only about half of all Palestinian children in the city attend state schools.
The rest - about 40,000 pupils – are in expensive private education or rely on various substandard forms of unofficial schooling.
"In the past two years, we have built schools in East Jerusalem at an accelerated pace," Israel's Minister of Education Yuli Tamir told reporters on 10 September as she and Mayor Uri Lupolianksy inaugurated a new school in Um Lison, a village on the city outskirts.
"All we can do is keep building," Tamir said, adding that "we will build wherever there is land".
However, this too is a contentious point for the Palestinians, who said they had to give up their private land for schools as the state did not use its own land reserves.
"Why do they need our land when they can use [the Israel Land] Administration's land?" demanded one parent at the new school.
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WorldPeaceTV
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part of Israels wiping out the people there. when will it all stop?
- 3 years ago
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mjsmith11
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This will only lengthen the catastrophe. Education is the an important part of development. What will become of these children? Maybe schools for these children will will be a better security structure than those crazy walls and checkpoints.
- 3 years ago
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mjsmith11
