WEST BANK (Dispatches) –
ionist troops on Wednesday attacked Palestinian school staff and students from the town of Tuqu, based in the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem, reported Wafa news agency.
According to the Ministry of Education (MoE), a group of Zionist troops attempted to break into the campus of Tuqu Secondary Boys School, until they were caught and stopped by the school staff.
Following attacks against the school staff for preventing them from breaking into the school campus, the troops also beat the teachers with rifle butts, resulting in the school principal and teachers suffering with multiple bruises on their bodies and faces.
Moreover, the Zionist troops fired tear gas and concussion bombs inside the school, causing suffocation cases among dozens of students and staff.
The MoE pointed that Tuqu Secondary Boys School is a frequent target of Zionist troops’ assaults, including opening gunfire towards the schools, obstructing students’ access to them and heavy military deployments in the surrounding area.
Human rights abuses against the Palestinians and breaches of international law are common, say human rights organizations.
Zionist troops also are carrying out a campaign of destruction in several Palestinian villages in the southern Negev desert this week, destroying crops and tilling land in areas traditionally cultivated by Bedouins that authorities insist is not theirs to develop.
Zionist troops confronted Palestinians in six villages - al-Mashash, al-Zarnouq, Bier al-Hamam, al-Ruwais, al-Gharaa, and Khirbet Watan - where almost 30,000 Palestinian live in the Negev, also known to Palestinians as al-Naqab.
On Wednesday morning, the Atrash family in al-Ruwais village had their crops destroyed and soil excavated by Zionist troops.
An eyewitness told local media that dozens of Zionist troops stormed the village for the third consecutive day, deploying military vehicles, dog and horse units, and bulldozers in the early hours.
The occupying regime considers the six Palestinian villages “unrecognized,” and therefore they are under threat of demolition.
Al-Araqib, one of the 35 unrecognized Palestinian villages in the Naqab, has been demolished 196 times by Zionist troops.