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Right to Education in the village of Awarta

While University students all over the West Bank are taking exams, students from the village of Awarta have missed exams, final...
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Israeli soldiers detain five Palestinian schoolboys in Tuba

Israeli soldiers have detained five Palestinian schoolboys in Tuba, claiming that the children were throwing stones. soldiers drove...
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DCI: number of young children (12-15 years) in detention increased by 60 percent

DCI-Palestine documented three cases of children reporting being given electric shocks by Israeli interrogators in Ari’el...
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“They don’t want our boys educated”

This is a distressed mother's story about how her son and other boys are repeatedly being arrested by the military at the start of the...
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Israeli border officials harass, summon Bethlehem University professor (formerly of Yale) for interrogation

Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, professor at Bethlehem and Birzeit University, recorded a video taping his treatment on the border, coming from...
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Education In Occupied Palestine

An analysis of the educational situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in light of the 2007 UNESCO/Save the Children UK...
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Shin Bet recruiters enticing Palestinian medical students with Jerusalem entry permits

The Shin Bet security service is trying to force Palestinian students to spy and report on other students' activities as a condition...
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Former Yale professor among 4 detained in Walaja

Former Yale professor Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh was among the four detained by Israeli forces during protests against the construction of the...
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Student Activist Arbitrarily Detained and Tortured by Israeli Occupation Forces

Umar Mousa Muhammad "Ala"-al-Din, a 25 year old Palestinian student from the village of al-Ma'sara, near Bethlehem, was taken by...
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Report reveals inaccessibilty of higher education for Palestinian prisoners

Palestinian detainees at the Hadarim detention center have been prevented from applying to universities for over a year, the...
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