The raids follow closure orders for six Unrwa-run schools in the city which will deprive some 800 Palestinian students of their education Palestinian schoolgirls in the playground of an Unrwa ...

UNRWA’s six schools in east Jerusalem were shut down on May 8, after the Jerusalem Municipality on April 8 issued orders to all six school principals telling them to cease operations within 30 days.

On the other hand, sources confirmed to Al Jazeera that Israeli forces raided UNRWA schools in the Shuafat refugee camp, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, in preparation for their closure.

The closures have left over 800 Palestinian students without schools, and has thrown an entire community into limbo.

(MENAFN- Jordan Times) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - "Israel must immediately reopen UNRWA-run schools and restore access for Palestinian refugees to UNRWA services in the West Bank", MP Sarah Champion ...

The entrance to an UNRWA girls school that was shut down by Israeli authorities, in the Shuafat camp, on the northeastern outskirts of Jerusalem, May 8, 2025. Israel on Thursday shut down six ...

(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) JEDDAH, May 8 (KUNA) -- Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned on Thursday the closure of six UNRWA schools in occupied Jerusalem by the Israeli ...

The Education Ministry announced Thursday that six schools affiliated with UNRWA, the UN’s “Palestinian refugees” agency, in eastern Jerusalem have been ordered to cease operations after ...

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 ...

JERUSALEM — Standing in the east Jerusalem school he attended as a young boy, Palestinian construction worker Ahmad Shweikeh studies his son’s careful penmanship. This classroom may be closed ...