Extremist Knesset Member Storms Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya Girls' School and Threatens Teaching Staff

In a new escalation targeting Palestinian educational institutions, extremist Israeli Knesset member Tzvika Fogel, accompanied by a group of armed settlers, stormed Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya Girls' Secondary School, located south of Nablus, this Sunday morning. The raid took place under heavy protection from occupation army forces, causing a state of panic and intimidation among students and teaching staff during official school hours.

Local sources reported that Fogel was accompanied by a group of armed settlers who carried out an extensive provocative tour in the schoolyards and facilities. The intruders began directly photographing classrooms and students, and also issued explicit threats to the teaching staff, in a move aimed at tightening the noose on the educational process in an area suffering from repeated attacks.

Following the withdrawal of the settlers from the school premises, the violations did not stop there. Occupation army forces then raided the village of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya and patrolled its streets. This military movement provides security cover for the settlers and exacerbates the state of tension experienced by the village and its educational institutions, which are located on the front lines with settlements.

For its part, the Ministry of Education and Higher Education expressed its strong condemnation of this attack, describing it as a blatant violation of all international conventions that guarantee the sanctity of schools. The ministry called on the international community and human rights organizations to intervene immediately to pressure the occupation authorities to stop these systematic practices that target the right of Palestinian students to access safe and stable education.

In the same context, the Director-General of Education in South Nablus, Samer Al-Jamal, stressed that the intimidation policy being used will not succeed in deterring the educational community from continuing its national and educational mission. Educational activists in the governorate appealed to international institutions for the urgent need to provide protection for the education sector in Nablus, emphasizing that international silence encourages the occupation to continue violating humanitarian laws.

Terrorizing female students constitutes a violation of all international laws, and these actions will not deter the educational community from carrying out its national mission.