PA neglects education in Gaza for 3rd year in a row

The PA Ministry of Education in Ramallah has neglected Gaza’s young people for the third year in a row, according to the Gaza Deputy Education Minister in Gaza, Ziad Thabet.

Thabet told a press conference that 499,643 students in the besieged enclave are suffering from the lack of basic needs because the PA in Ramallah “does not fulfill its duty towards them.”

Around 1.2 million Palestinian students started the new academic year on Sunday in both the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.

Thabet said that his ministry in Gaza has a shortage of teachers.

Vacancies cannot be filled, he pointed out, because the ministry in Ramallah does not recognize any new employee recruited in Gaza.

In an effort to overcome this problem, Thabet said that officials in Gaza have been obliged to recruit temporary teachers to satisfy the requirements of the students.