(8 May 2025)
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Jerusalem – 8 May 2025
1. Various of man closing the gate of Shufat Basic Girls School after Israel’s orders to permanently close six U.N. schools in east Jerusalem
2. Various of the United Nations flag at school
3. Wide of gate of the school
4. Mid of school sign, reading (English/Arabic) "Shufat Basic Girls School."
5. Tilt up from Layan Ramadan Nataheh, a pupil in the school, to school sign
6. Various of Nataheh looking at schoolbook
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Layan Ramadan Nataheh, pupil at the Shufat Basic Girls School:
"When I hugged the teachers goodbye, I started crying because I didn’t know which school I’d go to, where I would continue learning, and so on."
8. Various of students looking at closed gate of school
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Salim Anati, former UNRWA worker at Shufat Refugee Camp
“Today, this morning, it was a hard day for the people in Shuaft camp, because the (Israeli) police and border police came and closed the main road that goes to Shuaft girls and boys school, that belongs to UNRWA. And they did not allow anyone to pass or to go in front of the schools. And they entered the schools to give the orders of closing the schools. They forced the teachers, headmasters to leave the school and also the children were forced to leave their schools."
10. Wide of the school
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shujan Abu Remailah, resident of Shufat Refugee Camp:
"The presence of soldiers inside the school scares the girls. And the decision to close the school itself has affected their spirit and future, because they have nowhere to go anymore."
12. Various of pupils walking in the street of Shufat Refugee Camp in Jerusalem.
STORYLINE:
Israel permanently closed six U.N. schools in east Jerusalem on Thursday, forcing Palestinian students to leave early and throwing the education of more than 800 others into question.
Last month, heavily armed Israeli police and Education Ministry officials ordered six schools in east Jerusalem to close within 30 days, which ended on Wednesday.
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, runs the six schools.
UNRWA also runs schools in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which continue to operate.
The closure orders come after Israel banned UNRWA from operating on its soil earlier this year, the culmination of a long campaign against the agency that intensified following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel that ignited the war in Gaza.
Israel claims that UNRWA schools teach antisemitic content and anti-Israel sentiment, which UNRWA denies.
UNRWA is the main provider of education and health care to Palestinian refugees across east Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.
Israel has annexed east Jerusalem and considers the entire city its unified capital, a move unrecognized by most of the international community.
"When I hugged the teachers goodbye, I started crying because I didn’t know which school I’d go to, where I would continue learning," said Layan Ramadan Nataheh, a student at the Shufat Basic Girls School, one of the UNRWA schools ordered shut.
"The presence of soldiers inside the school scares the girls. And the decision to close the school itself has affected their spirit and future, because they have nowhere to go anymore," said Shujan Abu Remailah, a resident of the Shufat refugee camp.
The Israeli Ministry of Education says it will place the students into other Jerusalem schools.
UNRWA administrators pledged to keep the schools open for as long as possible.
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