Over the last three weeks, the majority of Israeli students have been unable to attend classes amid the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Yet for Palestinian students in the occupied West Bank, this has been the case for the last two years.

Under financial strain, the PA, the West Bank’s governing body, has been paying only 60% of public school teachers’ salaries since October 2023 — resulting in schools operating just three days a week.

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/03/how-israels-strangulation-of-the-west-bank-is-collapsing-the-palestinian-educational-system/

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How Israel’s strangulation of the West Bank is collapsing the Palestinian educational system

The Israeli occupation is instigating an economic collapse in the West Bank, forcing public schools to operate only three days a week. Teachers and parents say an entire generation is being denied the right to education.

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