{"id":4113,"date":"2018-02-07T13:17:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T13:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2018-02-10T13:19:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T13:19:32","slug":"eu-urges-israel-to-rebuild-demolished-palestinian-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/?p=4113","title":{"rendered":"EU urges Israel to rebuild demolished Palestinian classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-meta-top\">February 7, 2018 at 1:54 pm | Published in:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/category\/region\/international-organisations\/eu\/\">EU<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/category\/region\/international-organisations\/\">International Organisations<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/category\/region\/middle-east\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/category\/region\/middle-east\/\">Middle East<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/category\/news-2\/\">News<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/category\/region\/middle-east\/palestine\/\">Palestine<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"three-parts\">\n<div id=\"media-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">European Union officials have urged Israeli authorities to rebuild recently demolished classrooms that served Palestinian children living in Abu Nuwar community in the central West Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">On Sunday, Israeli occupation forces\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20180204-israel-razes-two-classes-in-bedouin-school-in-jerusalem\/\">destroyed<\/a>\u00a0two, donor-funded classrooms, which provided an education for more than two dozen Palestinian children. The classrooms were funded by the EU and its member states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/delegations\/palestine-occupied-palestinian-territory-west-bank-and-gaza-strip\/39422\/local-eu-statement-demolition-israeli-authorities-parts-school-bedouin-community-abu-nuwar_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>\u00a0issued yesterday, the European Union Representative and the EU Heads of Mission in Jerusalem and Ramallah expressed \u201cstrong concern\u201d over the demolition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u201cEvery child has the right to access to education and States have an obligation to protect, respect and fulfil this right, by ensuring that schools are inviolable safe spaces for children,\u201d it continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171218-family-of-8-left-homeless-as-israel-forces-jerusalemite-to-demolish-his-house\/\">Family of 8 left homeless as Israel forces Jerusalemite to demolish his house<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The EU officials called upon \u201cthe Israeli authorities to halt demolitions and confiscations of Palestinian houses and property in accordance with its obligations as an occupying power under international humanitarian law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The EU added that Israel should \u201ccease the policy of settlement construction and expansion, of designating land for exclusive Israeli use and of denying Palestinian development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The statement concluded by calling on \u201cthe Israeli authorities to rebuild the school structures in the same place\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20180207-eu-urges-israel-to-rebuild-demolished-palestinian-classrooms\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 7, 2018 at 1:54 pm | Published in:\u00a0EU,\u00a0International Organisations,\u00a0Israel,\u00a0Middle East,\u00a0News,\u00a0Palestine European Union officials have urged Israeli authorities to rebuild recently demolished classrooms that served Palestinian children living in Abu Nuwar community in the central West Bank. On Sunday, Israeli occupation forces\u00a0destroyed\u00a0two, donor-funded classrooms, which provided an education for more than two dozen Palestinian children. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4115,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions\/4115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}