   
The Wall - An Obstacle to Educating Palestinian Youth
Adri Nieuwhof and Jeff Handmaker, The Electronic Intifada, 8 November 2005
On 26 October 2005, we received an alarming report from the Palestinian Authority Minister of State for Jerusalem Affairs, Hind Khoury, on the impact of the wall on the education sector in East Jerusalem. The report makes it clear that Palestinian youth seeking to get an education are paying a high price for the occupation. 
Launch of Public Outreach Campaign for Education in East Jerusalem
Letter, Minister of State for Jerusalem Affairs, 26 October 2005
The Ministry of State for Jerusalem Affairs is embarking on a public outreach campaign regarding the dire constraints placed on Palestinian students and teachers accessibility to schools and universities due to the adverse impacts of Israels Wall in Occupied East Jerusalem. Such measures are an indication of Israels intention to annex Occupied East Jerusalem, tearing the socio-economic fabric that sustains Palestinian livelihoods and, effectively jeopardizing the viability of a two state solution.
Appeal to UNESCO on Education Crisis in East Jerusalem
Letter, Coalition for Jerusalem , 13 October 2005
We, the Palestinian educational institutions, Palestinian Non Governmental Organizations, Civil Society Organizations and Religious Dignitaries in Occupied East Jerusalem are writing to you to draw your attention to the disastrous implications of Israel's policies on the education sector in Occupied East Jerusalem.
Israeli colony seizes school grounds
AlJazeera.Net, AFP, 6 October 2005
Palestinian schoolboys in a Jerusalem suburb have lost their football pitch and volleyball court to a giant cement wall Israel has built through their playground.
The "Security" Wall Bars Education in East Jerusalem
Sari Nusseibeh, East Jerusalem, 25 August 2005
As Arab schools in East Jerusalem prepare to start the new academic year in early September, nearly seven hundred teachers employed by those schools will be unable to reach their classrooms. With the "security" wall around Jerusalem now reaching its completion, cutting off East Jerusalem from its natural Arab surroundings, and entry restrictions becoming more stringent, teachers who neither have Israeli IDs or special permits will no longer be able to reach their places of work. Many pupils living in those areas will also be prevented from being able to reach their schools.
School Children Killed by Israeli Army at Anti-Wall Protest
Report, International Solidarity Movement, 4 May 2005
Two cousins, 14 and 15 years old, were shot dead today as Israeli soldiers opened fire on a demonstration against the Apartheid Wall in the village of Beit Liqya.
Sealing Their Fate: The Wall's Implications for Palestinian Life
SOAS Palestine Society, Friends of Birzeit University, 13 January 2005
SOAS Palestine Society and Friends of Birzeit University present speakers and a photography exhibition showing the wall's impact on Palestinian students, including photographs by Birzeit University students who are taking part in the Right to Education Photography Project.
"Let Us Study!" Schools Protest Against the Wall at Al-Ram
Report, Gush Shalom, 13 September 2004
More than a thousand schoolchildren, boys and girls from 6 to 14, wearing their school uniforms and carrying bags, demonstrated today (Monday, 13.9) at the wall that is being built in a-Ram. The pupils carried posters demanding: "Let Us Study!"
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