Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel killed at least 29 people in a strike at a school turned shelter in southern Gaza on Tuesday, a hospital source in Khan Yunis said. There was no immediate comment from Israel. Hamas’ Qatar-based political chief Ismail Haniyeh said he had warned mediators that the “catastrophic consequences...
ANKARA (AA) – At least five Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured on Friday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a school sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Palestinian media reported. The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that “five people were killed and dozens others injured at dawn on Friday in [&...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – More than 10 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, Palestinian group Hamas said. “This is a heinous crime and a disdain for the UN refugee agency UNRWA and the United Nations,” Hamas said […]
Damascus, Syria – AFP Nearly four million Syrians students in government-controlled areas returned to school Sunday, braving the effects of war, a devastating earthquake and a deep economic crisis. But many children do not have classrooms to go to in a country where many educational facilities have been damaged or destroyed and 90 percen...
NEW DELHI (AA) – A school in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where a teacher reportedly encouraged students to slap a Muslim classmate, has been ordered shut until an investigation against the authorities is completed. The teacher has been booked and an investigation into the case is underway, Education Officer Shubham Shukla said ...
ISTANBUL (AA) — France plans to ban the abaya, a long loose-fitting overgarment worn by some Muslim women, on school grounds, the country’s education minister said on Sunday. Gabriel Attal told broadcaster TF1 that the government intends to convey “clear rules” on the matter to school officials across the country. Attal also ...
