Palestine: occupation troops harass and detain Palestinian schoolchildren
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) prevented Palestinian students from accessing their school in the village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, located on the Ramallah-Nablus main streets, local sources said.
They told WAFA that Zionist troops harassed the students, prevented them from continuing on the road to their school and forced them to take a different longer and rougher way to get to their school.
The troops closed the main gate of a high school in the area a couple of days ago, while a settler obstructed access of students and teachers to the school.
Earlier this week, an Israeli settler parked his car at the entrance of the village secondary school for girls, in an attempt to provoke the children and their teachers. Soldiers closed the school gate and prevented the pupils from entering and leaving the premises.
They also detained a 17-year-old Palestinian boy from the nearby village of Ammuriya for over two hours. He was released without charge.
Due to its location on a major West Bank road used by settlers commuting between their illegal settlements and Jerusalem, schoolchildren are frequently harassed and attacked by soldiers and settlers alike.
Zionist regime has occupied the West Bank since 1967. Human rights abuses against the Palestinians and breaches of international law are common, say human rights organisations.
More than 600,000 Jewish Israelis live in settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Al-Quds. All of Israel's settlements are illegal under international law, which the apartheid state treats with contempt.