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Israeli Regime Demolishes Palestinian Elementary School in Occupied West Bank

Friday 25 November 2022
Israeli Regime Demolishes Palestinian Elementary School in Occupied West Bank

Alwaght- Israeli regime’s forces have demolished a recently-built Palestinian primary school in the Masafer Yatta region of the southern occupied West Bank, where residents are facing the ongoing threat of eviction from their homes and forced displacement in one of the single biggest expulsion decisions since the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories began in 1967.

Witnesses and local officials said Israeli army raided the area on Wednesday morning and demolished Asafat, a boys' and girls' school, in the village of Asafat al-Fawqa.

Footage taken by Israeli activist Itai Feitelson before the demolition shows teachers helping young Palestinian students out of a classroom window, while Israeli forces are standing outside.

Dozens of Israeli soldiers then cordoned off the area around the school, and a bulldozer flattened it shortly afterwards.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli forces confiscated the school's stationery, tables and chairs before flattening the building.

A picture published afterwards by Israeli rights group B'Tselem showed a pile of debris, where the school once stood on a hill.

The Asafat school used to serve the Palestinian residents of the communities of Asafat al-Fawqa, Asafat al-Tahta, Maghayer al-Ubaid and Tuba. 

According to the Norwegian Refugee Council, the so-called Israeli High Court of Justice revoked on Wednesday an interim injunction freezing a demolition order against the school.

COGAT, the Israeli military body responsible for administrative affairs in the occupied West Bank, alleged that the school had been built illegally in an area designated as a closed firing zone.

The Palestinian Ministry of Education stated the demolition was “a heinous crime.”

“These practices have become a flagrant violation of students' right to safe and free education,” the statement read.

The ministry said that dozens of Palestinian students in Masafer Yatta now had no school to attend.

Fouad al-Amour, an activist from Masafer Yatta, said students could miss out on school as the closest schools are 2 kilometers and 4 kilometers away and movement of Palestinians in the area is highly restricted by the Israeli army. 

“The timing was chosen strategically, as we're entering the winter season and it would be difficult to rebuild. This is going to be a bigger catastrophe for the students,” Amour said. 

“We will try what we can to rebuild, but we know the Israeli authorities play the thieves and the judges at the same time,” he noted.

Israeli officials claim that the Masafer Yatta villagers have no rights to the land, designated as Firing Zone 918, since it is to be used for military exercises, in which the presence of civilians is prohibited.

According to the Geneva conventions pertaining to humanitarian treatment in war, it is, however, illegal to expropriate occupied land for purposes that do not benefit the people living there, or to forcibly transfer the local population.

Masafer Yatta residents and Israeli rights groups say that many of the Palestinian families have been permanently residing in the 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) area since before Israel captured the West Bank, in the 1967 Middle East War, and that their eviction would constitute a breach of international law.

 

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