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Critics say it is possible that hundreds of children will be transferred to schools that are studying Israeli curricula, which can “erase” the Palestinian identity.

Israel closed six schools run by the United Nations Refugee Agency after moving to remove the organization from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in early this year.

The United Nations Relief and Business Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) said in a statement that the Israeli police had entered the forced schools in the east neighborhoods in Shuwat, Silwan, Sur Bahir, Wadi Al -Jawz on Tuesday.

Officials from the Israeli Ministry of Education were within reach. They issued orders to close schools within 30 days.

“If we have to close, the consequences will be harsh, as children will be deprived of their primary right to education, which will exacerbate their suffering and negatively affect their future,” said Erber Ismail, Director of the UNRWA Information Office.

UNRWA President Philip Lazarini said in a statement that Israel’s orders were a “violation” of international law and the rules that grant the protection of United Nations operations from local judicial states.

“About 800 boys and girls are directly affected by these closure orders, and they are likely to miss the completion of their academic year.”

This morning, Israeli officials from the Jerusalem municipality entered, accompanied by the Israeli security forces, by force Unrwa Schools in East Jerusalem. Give the closure orders to active schools in 30 days.

UNRWA schools in occupied East Jerusalem are …

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Al -Jazeera correspondent Noor Auday said that the closure of UNRWA schools is “very problematic” because children will end up in Israeli institutions run by the Jerusalem municipality.

She explained that the children who confessed to Israeli schools will not be taught within the framework of the Palestinian curriculum.

Odeh from the capital of Jordan, Amman, said: “It is an Israeli approach that the Palestinians are said to ignore and wipe the Palestinian identity.” Al -Jazeera reports Jordan because it was banned from Israel and the West Bank.

UNRWA currently provides humanitarian assistance for about 750,000 Palestinians.

Ismail said that the Relief Agency maintained “its steadfast commitment to the continued provision of educational services to Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem, including the current academic year.”

However, Israel accused UNRWA’s employees of participating in the Hamas -led attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, a charge of the United Nations.

Last year, in the wake of these allegations, the Israeli Knesset passed Two projects UNRWA prevented activities within the borders of Israel and made illegal for Israeli officials to obtain any contact with UNRWA. These measures have been valid since January.

Odeh said that Israel began carrying out its ban by refusing to communicate with UNRWA on the issue of aid to Gaza. But now, she made it clear that the country has moved to targeting the agency’s operations in occupied East Jerusalem.

She said that this step is likely to have a “broken effect” on UNRWA operations “in 19 other refugee camp” through the occupied West Bank, which affects “Palestinians who rely on the agency, not only for education but also for health services, for psychological and social support.”

Odeh added that Israel had stolen its implementation of UNRWA since the beginning of its military incursion, “Iron Wall” in the West Bank in January.

The operation was launched only two days after the ceasefire began in Gaza.

He participated in the Israeli military societies and wandering throughout the West Bank, which puts the entire residential areas while critics feared is an attempt to move towards full annexation.

More than 40,000 Palestinians were uprooted from the Jenin and Tolkram camps for refugees as part of the military campaign.

The United Nations General Assembly was established in 1949 to provide assistance to the Palestinians displaced from their land during the establishment of Israel in 1948, a known event for the Palestinians in the name of Nakba, or a “disaster”.