School

Pitch black under siege

by SR Editor April 19, 2010

By Saleh Al-Naami | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Dr Moawya Hassanein, head of Emergency Medicine at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, warns that the lives of thousands of patients with kidney failure who require dialysis three times a week are at risk because of power failures. “There is little we can do at hospitals for [...]

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Israeli army confiscates truck, forcing children and teachers to walk an hour to homes

by Haitham Sabbah December 23, 2009

Masafer Yatta/South Hebron Hills – On Sunday, 20 December 2009, the Israeli army disrupted transportation of children and teachers from Al-Fakheit school to their homes. The Palestinian driver, accompanied by one CPTer, was on his way to pick up children and teachers after school when, at about 1:00 p.m. soldiers in a Humvee stopped the [...]

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Educating Children in War Zones: Israeli Arab Schools Get Only Half the Funding of Their Jewish Counterparts

by SR Editor October 18, 2009

By Catherine Rottenberg and Neve Gordon* Educating children in a conflict zone is no simple matter. More often than not, those responsible for the curricula succumb to the masters of war and adopt a pedagogical approach that exacerbates rather than diffuses strife. Israel, unfortunately, is no exception. Consider the way Jewish and Palestinian children are [...]

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Video: Prima Facie Evidence of War Crimes by Israel

by Haitham Sabbah January 20, 2009

Channel Four News journalist Johnathan Miller travelled to Gaza where he interviewed civilians sheltering in a UN run school attacked by Israel using white phosphorus munitions. Donatella Rovera, an Amnesty International investigator said “We’ve seen Prima Facie that there have been war crimes.”

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Video: Israel vs UN – Targeting civilians inside UN school

by Haitham Sabbah January 11, 2009

[Via: Tamem]

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Education vs. Occupation: The school they didn’t want us to build

by Haitham Sabbah September 21, 2008

Brighton Tubas Friendship And Solidarity Group Press Release Fasayil School – A Jordan Valley Success Story In Summer 2007 a small group of activists from Brighton began talking to villagers in Fasayil, a small village in the Israeli occupied Jordan Valley. The villagers said that many of their children could not go to school because [...]

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Despite truce, still no sign of school supplies in Gaza

by Haitham Sabbah August 20, 2008

Under its truce with Hamas, Israel has permitted shipments of frozen meat, soft drinks, cookies, jam, shampoo, clothing and other items. However, the amounts are insufficient for the entire population. In September 2007 – three months after Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, and after the main cargo crossing, Karni, had been shut down – [...]

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Palestinian children cut off from their homes

by Haitham Sabbah November 21, 2007

Video Transcript: Cameraman: What are you doing here? Girl: Going back home from school! Cameraman: Where are you going now? Girl: Home! Cameraman: Where is your home? Girl: Behind the Wall! Boy: My home is behind this wall. We study at Bet Nabal! Cameraman: What happened here today? Boy: They closed the passage, we are [...]

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Palestinian Folklore Dancing Banned in a US School

by Haitham Sabbah November 11, 2007

Photo by: El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe Now this is the most disgusting piece of news I’ve read today: OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. – Officials in Old Saybrook have canceled performances by a Palestinian dance troupe after getting a complaint that it is offensive to Jews and Israel. The decision involves planned performances at the town’s [...]

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Back-to-School Gift for the Children

by Haitham Sabbah October 1, 2007

Donate a Back to school gift for Palestinian Children (thru Middle East Children’s Alliance).

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George Bisharat – Palestinian Children without Textbooks

by George Bisharat September 21, 2007

A double standard on academic freedom in the Middle East By George Bisharat Two hundred thousand Palestinian children began school in the Gaza Strip this month without a full complement of textbooks. Why? Because Israel, which maintains a stranglehold over this small strip of land along the Mediterranean even after withdrawing its settlers from there [...]

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For security reasons, Israel bans paper from Gaza schools

by Haitham Sabbah August 25, 2007

Not a joke, but yes sick… The Israeli government forbade the entrance of paper for making text books to children from Gaza Strip, denounced Palestinian-Israeli Information-Investigation Center (CIIPI). A released issued by the institution revealed that Palestinian children will attend the classrooms in September without their pens, pencils, books and more if the military command [...]

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Child abuse in our schools

by Haitham Sabbah March 13, 2007

This is one of the most bizarre video clips I’ve ever seen. Warning (PG): Parents, keep your kids away, trust me. I have no clue where was this video clip taken. It is a classroom in one of our schools around the Arab world. The teacher’s accent sounds Syrian; however that doesn’t necessary mean that [...]

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Inaccurate ‘human rights’ teaching in Jordan schools

by Haitham Sabbah January 18, 2006

Looks like the Jordanian National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) are on high gear. After the recent report they issued on Jordan’s prisoners in jail without trial, today’s come a new report on “Inaccurate rights terminology in national school textbooks.” Here are some excerpts: Jordanian authorities should revise national school textbooks in order to avoid [...]

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Arabic Teachers Needs Arabic Teaching

by Haitham Sabbah October 29, 2005

I could not resist but blog this. Background: Nooreldin (my eldest son), is now in Grade II. He goes to a private English school, which obviously teaches everything in English, except Arabic and Islamic are in Arabic of course. Anyway, tonight he was studying for his tomorrow Arabic exam. He came across a word he [...]

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