Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked al‑Maleh School in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, late Monday night, causing extensive damage to the building and its facilities.
Azmi Balawna, Director of Education in Tubas, said the colonizers invaded the school compound, vandalized its contents, destroyed the water and electricity networks, damaged several facilities, and stole items from inside the school.
He described the attack as one of the most severe acts of destruction the school has faced.
Balawna added that the Ministry plans to reopen and operate the school for students from the al‑Maleh and northern Jordan Valley communities.
The school has been repeatedly targeted over the past months, with several incidents of destruction and sabotage affecting its classrooms and infrastructure.
Al‑Maleh School serves children from nearby Bedouin communities, offering education from first to third grade. Due to repeated attacks and restrictions, classes have been conducted through remote learning.
In related news, five Palestinian Workers Injured in two separate vehicular attacks by Israeli colonizers, while Israeli forced abducted five others near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, early Tuesday.
A day earlier, Israeli colonizers invaded a school in Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, wrote racist graffiti and removed the Palestinian flag from its tooftop before replacing it with the Israeli flag.
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Last Friday, Israeli colonizers carried out two separate attacks in the West Bank, targeting an all‑girls school south of Nablus in the northern West Bank and Palestinian vehicles in the town of Tuqu’ southeast of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment and acts of terror against civilian populations.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory”.
Articles 53 and 147, prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
