“Education” launches the school year from the West Bank and Gaza, present in every school

Ramallah- Ma'an- The Ministry of Education and Higher Education launched the new academic year 2024/2025 in its schools in the West Bank; while the occupation's aggression on the Gaza Strip deprived more than 630,000 students of their right to education since October 7, 2023, amidst insistence on saving the past academic year and compensating students according to a special plan by the ministry. The ministry had launched its tour to open the year from the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus, specifically from Qaryut Girls Secondary School, which lost the martyred student Bana Bakr from the ninth grade, in an event to support the school's students, staff and the student's family, where her colleagues raised pictures of her, amid feelings of sadness. The event was attended by Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr. Amjad Barham, Assistant Undersecretary for Student Affairs Sadeq Al-Khudour, Director General of Buildings Eng. Wissam Nakhleh, Director General of Education in South Nablus Samer Al-Jamal, and other representatives of official, civil and local activities. At the beginning of the event, Prime Minister Dr. Mohammed Mustafa made a phone call to the father of the martyred child Bana Bakr while her family participated in the opening of the new school year inside her school. In his speech, the Minister stressed that the presence of the educational family today in the heart of Qaryut Girls School carries a sign of loyalty to the martyrs; especially those who ascended from our school students and educational cadres in Gaza and the West Bank, recalling that the martyr Bana who departed left behind memories and the scout dress, stressing that the Ministry will remain a guardian of history and education and confronting the occupier with knowledge and determination and building the institutions of the homeland. The tour also included inspecting Qaryut Mixed Basic School. In Nablus Education, Minister Barham conducted a tour that included the opening of Afif Al-Aker Mixed Basic School with a donation fr om Hajjah Afif Al-Aker and the Education Tax, and inspected Taher Al-Hudhud Mixed Vocational School and Nablus Industrial Secondary School; in order to stand on educational developments and verify readiness for the school year to proceed according to plan. He participated in the opening ceremony of Afif Al-Aker School; Governor of Nablus Ghassan Daghlas, Mayor of Nablus Dr. Hussam Al-Shakhshir, Al-Khudhur, Nakhleh, Director General of Nablus Education Ahmed Sawalha, and representatives of the governorate's institutions and activities. The participants delivered speeches in which they renewed their emphasis on protecting and supporting education, preserving the martyrs' wills, serving the educational and learning process, insisting on education as a tool for liberation and construction, and continuing construction and giving, despite the destruction and scenes of genocide. In Jericho Education, Barham visited the Jericho Education Directorate; where he began his tour by visiting Muscat Secondary School, in the presence of Jericho Governor Dr. Hussein Hamayel, Director General of Education Amjad Al-Khudairi and the accompanying delegation. He met with education cadres in a working meeting; to stand on the developments and evaluate the progress of the school year at the level of the governorate's schools, in light of the provocations witnessed by some schools by settler gangs in the early morning hours. Source: Maan News Agency