Israeli soldiers prevent students and others from crossing a checkpoint between their homes and schools on the edge of the West Bank city of Qalqiliya on 17 March 2010. Some teachers used the checkpoint as a makeshift classroom and held studies despite the closure, which was linked to clashes elsewhere in the occupied territories.
A picture is worth a thousand words:
Source: Maan News
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Such powerful imagery. I find these images very moving. They show the indefatigable resolve of Palestinian students and teachers to have their education, even under the repressive and illegal occupation of their land. In Ramallah the Tamer Institute has a motto ‘With words we overcome walls’.
Two of my friends from the National Union of Teachers and I visited the West Bank in February 2008. We were struck by the thirst for education in such appallingly difficult circumstances. These are courageous and heroic people.
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