Palestinian Education

Gaza’s back-to-school coverage misses the crucial test: What are children being taught? - analysis

For Gaza to have a different future - for the thousands of children returning to school for a better future than the one Hamas has condemned them to - it is not enough merely to reopen classrooms.

Palestinian children walk to school amid the rubble of destroyed buildings as the academic year begins in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on September 19, 2026.
A child's drawing shown here says: "In Gaza City at least 150 children die as Martyrs [daily]. How many child Martyrs are there in nine days?"

Palestinian Authority schools praise martydom, use October 7 attack in math lessons

A child wears a Hamas head banner after Friday prayers in Gaza City.

Indoctrinating innocents: From the Khmer Rouge to Hamas, the art of child indoctrination

Grade 5 Arabic Language textbook exalting terrorist Dalal Mughrabi.

Antisemitism remains central feature in Palestinian education curriculum, IMPACT-se finds


EU holds PA funds after reform of antisemitic textbooks fails

The authority uses textbooks that demonstrate "antisemitic narratives and glorification of violence" despite a promise to reform.

European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 24, 2021

PA hasn't removed hateful content from textbooks, producing worse content

Despite a roadmap created with the EU to ensure new textbooks would be free of hate, the PA reneged on the promise and produced new hateful educational content.

A Palestinian teacher conducts a class for students in an UNRWA-run school that reopened after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions were eased, at al-Fari'ah refugee camp, in the West Bank April 12, 2021.

This woman revolutionized Israel’s education system - here’s how

Long before COVID, Yaffa Zilbershats was promoting the concept of remote digital learning in order to make higher education accessible to all segments of the population.

 ZILBERSHATS WANTS Israel to become ‘a brain gain country.’

EU study finds incitement in Palestinian textbooks, kept from public

The 200-page report, commissioned by then EU foreign affairs representative Federica Mogherini, examined 156 textbooks and 16 teaching curriculums issued by the PA between 2017-2019.

Palestinian children learn Islamic lessons on summer vacation as COVID-19 restrictions ease in Gaza.

EU funds unapproved Palestinian school in Jordan Valley nature reserve

The school was built in an Area C nature preserve without building permits from the IDF or the Israeli government.

Palestinian school built in the Barak Nature Preserve in Area C of the West Bank.

Canada deepens probe into UNRWA's anti-Israel school textbook materials

Last month, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to answer for it in the Canadian Parliament. Canada has committed C$90 million in the last year to UNWRA.

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during Question Period, as efforts continue to help slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada February 24, 2021.

Norway again cuts PA funding over Palestinian hate education

Norway's aid budget to the PA was slashed by 30 million krone.

TEXTBOOKS SAID to be produced by the Palestinian Authority which contain anti-Israel and anti-Western bias are put on display on Capitol Hill by the NGO Palestine Media Watch.

Palestinian U. gate named after planner of Munich Olympics massacre

"We are proud of the distinguished leaders whose bodies are no more, but whose spirit remains among us.”

Palestinian students walk past a Fatah poster at the Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron

Attacking UNRWA’s education system risks the lives of students - opinion

Criticizing books used in UNRWA schools only questions the few resources available to Palestinian children.

MEN AND boys attend a prayer in July to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, at an UNRWA school in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Erdan attacks UNRWA over incitement against Israel and 'refugee' misdefinition

The ambassador stressed that terrorist organizations such as Hamas use the agency's facilities for terrorist purposes and urged the agency to take action.

Israel's ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan at the 75 UN General Assembly, September