SETTLERS ATTACK SCHOOL, FORCING STUDENTS TO STUDY AT CHECKPOINT

Go figger. Settlers attack the school and its children but the children are forced to avoid the school due to suspicions THEY might be the terrorists? Am I missing something here beyond the usual nastiness of the Israeli military?

This school in Qurtuba has already got a very trouble history and the children attending it must be especially dedicated and brave young warriors. For more of its previous history, please go to this 2006 article of events that take place regularly.

 Feral settler girls stopped by Israeli soldier

from attacking Palestinian girls going home from school

Palestine News Network

October 15, 2011

On Tuesday, after a settlers’ attack on Qurtuba Girls’ School in Hebron, students were forced to continue their studies at the nearby Israeli checkpoint. This is the third day the students have been forbidden to enter the school.

School janitor Mohamad Zaloum told Palestinian state-run news wire Wafa that a group of settlers threw stones and empty bottles. Zaloum said he tried to stop them, but they beat him. 

School principal Ibtisam al-Jundi said that the Israeli forces are still forbidding faculty and students from entering the school under the pretext that no citizen is to pass without a thorough inspection at the electronic doors at the entrance to the settlement.   

Main access steps to Qurtuba School, now blocked
with razor wire

“We refused this decision, so the teachers lecture their students on the side of the road in front of the checkpoint,” said al-Jundi, referring to the Shuhada Street checkpoint at the entrance to the illegal Israeli settlement inside Hebron. 

Wafa sources in Hebron said that Israeli soldiers tried to prevent journalists from approaching the school, pointing out that peace workers from the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) were allowed to visit the school.