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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/israeli-kindergarten-raid-terrifies-palestinian-kids-171107182749115.html
Occupied East Jerusalem - Teachers and parents have decried a raid on a school by Israeli forces that resulted in the arrests of the school's deputy principal and three teachers.
Israeli police entered the Zahwa al-Quds kindergarten and primary school in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Beit Hanina on Monday and made the arrests because staff refused to follow Israel's education standard, according to school staff.
"Israel is attempting to force our school to adopt the Israeli education curriculum," Ziad al-Shamali, head of the school's parent committee, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday. "We are refusing this. So they decided to raid our school and scare our children."
Local teacher Ola Nini told Al Jazeera several unarmed and plain-clothed Israeli police officers and officials from Israel's Jerusalem municipality entered the school during the first class of the morning. Zahwa al-Quds is a private school with about 90 students between the ages of three and nine.
Officers searched all the classrooms and demanded the identity cards of each teacher, Nini said, adding they then wrote down their names and made photocopies of their IDs.
Shamali said the officers also confiscated phones and deleted footage of the incident on the school's surveillance cameras. The students were so frightened that at least one child urinated on herself, Nini added.
"The officers began to question the students about the books they were reading and took pictures of the books," Nini explained. The officers then made their way to the principal's office, broke in, and confiscated teacher salaries and school papers in the drawers of the principal's desk, she said.
During the raid, the school's deputy principal and three teachers were taken into Israeli custody. They were released later on Monday.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/israeli-kindergarten-raid-terrifies-palestinian-kids-171107182749115.html
Occupied East Jerusalem - Teachers and parents have decried a raid on a school by Israeli forces that resulted in the arrests of the school's deputy principal and three teachers.
Israeli police entered the Zahwa al-Quds kindergarten and primary school in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Beit Hanina on Monday and made the arrests because staff refused to follow Israel's education standard, according to school staff.
"Israel is attempting to force our school to adopt the Israeli education curriculum," Ziad al-Shamali, head of the school's parent committee, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday. "We are refusing this. So they decided to raid our school and scare our children."
Local teacher Ola Nini told Al Jazeera several unarmed and plain-clothed Israeli police officers and officials from Israel's Jerusalem municipality entered the school during the first class of the morning. Zahwa al-Quds is a private school with about 90 students between the ages of three and nine.
Officers searched all the classrooms and demanded the identity cards of each teacher, Nini said, adding they then wrote down their names and made photocopies of their IDs.
Shamali said the officers also confiscated phones and deleted footage of the incident on the school's surveillance cameras. The students were so frightened that at least one child urinated on herself, Nini added.
"The officers began to question the students about the books they were reading and took pictures of the books," Nini explained. The officers then made their way to the principal's office, broke in, and confiscated teacher salaries and school papers in the drawers of the principal's desk, she said.
During the raid, the school's deputy principal and three teachers were taken into Israeli custody. They were released later on Monday.
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