Settlers burn a classroom in Jalud school and write racist slogans

A group of settlers launched a racist attack in the early hours of Friday morning targeting the Jalud Mixed Secondary School, located south of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank. They deliberately set fire to one of the classrooms and vandalized school facilities, in a dangerous escalation targeting Palestinian educational institutions.

Infiltration, Arson, and Intimidation Field details indicated that the settlers secretly infiltrated the school campus, taking advantage of the dawn quiet, and set fire inside a classroom, which led to the complete burning of its contents and caused severe material damage to the building.

The matter did not stop at material sabotage; the attackers also wrote racist and hostile slogans on the school walls before withdrawing, in a move clearly aimed at spreading fear, terror, and intimidation among students and educational staff.

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Official Condemnation and Calls for Intervention For his part, the Director-General of Education, Mr. Samer Al-Jamal, condemned this brutal attack, considering it a "direct and explicit targeting of the educational process" and a blatant violation of students' right to safe and stable education away from danger.

Al-Jamal issued an urgent appeal to all human rights organizations and relevant international bodies, calling on them to intervene immediately to put an end to these repeated attacks and provide the necessary protection for Palestinian schools.

Continuous Targeting It is worth noting that Jalud Secondary School is not immune to such attacks; it is continuously and semi-periodically subjected to settler attacks, due to its location in a friction zone suffering from continuous settlement ambitions, which poses a constant threat to the educational process there.