Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas: World Teachers’ Day falls today, October 5

Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas:

▪World Teachers’ Day falls on October 5, while the occupation’s crimes against education in Palestine continue after three years of educational and cultural genocide.

▪The fascist occupation government has destroyed more than 90% of the infrastructure of schools and universities in the Gaza Strip, and has killed more than 1050 male and female teachers, while continuing to target teachers in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem with arrest, pursuit, harassment and killing, in violation of our people’s right to education and in disregard for international laws and conventions.

▪The escalation of these crimes places responsibility on the international community and the relevant institutions to criminalize them, stop them, and support the educational sector, and to provide the means for the continuation of the educational process and support our people’s right to education.

▪We salute male and female teachers and their role in our people’s struggle, and we greet them for carrying out their mission despite the repercussions of the war of extermination, limited resources, and the occupation’s escalation of its crimes and violations.

▪We affirm that attempts to Israelize education and its curricula, and to target educational institutions in Jerusalem, will not erase its Arab and Islamic identity or undermine the Jerusalemite generation’s attachment to it and defense of it.

▪We call on Arab and Islamic states and free people around the world to move to protect and support the educational system in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem, and to create the humanitarian and material conditions, a safe environment, and the necessary alternatives for the continuation of education and the failure of the occupation’s goals.

▪We pray for the souls of the martyrs (killed) among male and female teachers and the martyrs (killed) of our people, and we ask God for healing for the wounded and sick, and freedom for the prisoners and detainees in the occupation’s prisons.