Torn down: Palestinian schools destroyed by Israel at start of new year
Back to school for many means a fresh start, but for some Palestinian children it has meant a return to destruction and violence
Schoolchildren sit patiently as Palestinian activists set up a tent for them to attend class (MEE/ Chloé Benoist)-Young boys sit on the cement foundations where the prefabricated classrooms of the Jubbet al-Dhib school stood hours earlier (MEE/ Chloé Benoist)
Schoolchildren sit patiently as Palestinian activists set up a tent for them to attend class (MEE/ Chloé Benoist)-Young boys sit on the cement foundations where the prefabricated classrooms of the Jubbet al-Dhib school stood hours earlier (MEE/ Chloé Benoist)
Children and activists crowd inside the tent as class starts (MEE/ Chloé Benoist)-Children’s chairs discarded by Israeli forces during the demolition (MEE/ Chloé Benoist)
Scores of children from Jubbet al-Dhib and neighboring villages in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem were expecting Wednesday to be the first day of school in a brand new primary school, funded by the European Union (EU).
On Tuesday evening, however, Israeli forces tore down six prefab classrooms and confiscated all the construction material, leaving behind only piles of children’s chairs on the bare concrete.
