fetal- The young Sami Abu Attia, 18, was preparing himself for his last school year with strong enthusiasm and dreaming of success in the high school exam with excellence, before the occupation turned his dream into a bitter and Asib reality.
Sami reported that the tiredness of 11 years ended in one month, when a camp was invaded fetal He and his family were forced to leave their home, as his life turned upside down and turned from a school student, all his concern to follow his lessons and prepare for his exams, to a displaced person looking with his father for a house to live, and his time goes on providing some needs for his family members, especially his young brothers.
“We left everything behind and left,” Sami told Al -Jazeera Net.
Difficult situations
The situation settled in Sami and his family in a small house in a remote in the Wadi Burqin area, and he found himself not possessing school books, as he left with his family in a hurry and under the threat of drones. The occupation soldiers also stole his computer after raiding his house.
“This year is difficult, we have not had an intense explanation of the materials as a whole, and we have not received a summary of the lessons. I do not know how the exams will be, we ask the Ministry of Education to take into account our circumstances and reduce exam questions.”
The second semester started in West Bank With the start of the Israeli military operation, the “Al -Hadid Wall” in my city Tulkarm And two fetus last January, which led to the disruption of schools, and the educational process stopped for more than 40 days.
Then the Palestinian Ministry of Education approved the return of school hours, and allowed the displaced to register in schools close to their displacement places.
However, the reality of the situation reveals the difficulty of putting the displaced students from the various academic stages, as a large number of them, especially in the elementary classes, lost the opportunity to return to the school with the difficulty of the financial conditions and the conditions of repeated displacement.
While students in the advanced stages, especially high school, suffered from difficulties, due to the loss of a large part of the year of study, as working hours in 90% of the schools of Jenin and Tulkarm in the first two months of this year and because of what the occupation called it the “Iron Wall” to education. According to education officials, he directly affected the psychological students.
The similarity of the circumstances
From Nour Shams camp, near the city of Tulkarm, the student was displaced in high school Saba Alyan With her family consisting of 4 individuals, and despite her distinction during her previous years of study, she was unable to provide experimental exams that precede the Ministry of Education’s “Tawjihi” exam, as the displacement has a great impact on her psyche, as her mother says.
“More than 20 days have passed, in which Saba was unable to follow her lessons and review them,” the mother says.
Saba and her family, after expelling hundreds of families from the camp, resorted to housing in an area close to it, but she did not find a school near to join her, forcing her to register in a school in the center of Tulkarm, which cost her a material burden and long time in going and returning.
Her mother says, “In the first days of our displacement, she was unable to study, she was saying that she is not comfortable in the displacement house, and she lacks the calm of her room and the study routine in it, then we tried to go home, but it was very dangerous because our neighborhood in the camp was besieged by the occupation army and military bulldozers close to it.”
“Until today, she did not adapt to the new situation, and unfortunately these students did not receive any support from the Ministry of Education, and the teachers we communicated with to give her lessons in mathematics and physics refused to the distance between the house we were displaced.”
“We have not received any visit from the Ministry of Education, or any contact, and they have set the date for the exams, without addressing the status of the displaced. Will they be able to take the exam? Do they find a suitable time and place and safe to study? All of this did not happen.”
Alpha is a displaced student
For its part, the Palestinian Ministry of Education confirmed its readiness to hold the high school exam in the middle of this month in the West Bank and for Gaza students abroad.
It is scheduled to take 50 thousand and 150 male and female students in the West Bank governorates. The displaced students from the Tulkarm and Jenin camps were absorbed in schools close to their whereabouts, according to Sadiq al -Khaddour, a spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Education.
Speaking to Al -Jazeera Net, Al -Khaddour stressed that the responsible authorities took into account the conditions of the displaced students, and relied on a plan to complete the last curriculum for them, stressing that the Ministry of Education has prepared a plan to overcome any emergency that may occur during the exam period as well.
Al -Khaddour says, “We are under occupation, do not take into account any sanctity, whether for schools, students, or education. Last year, several Israeli abuses occurred during the exams, including storming Jenin, Tulkarm and some of its villages, and we dealt with them on time, according to the established emergency plan, and we were able to overcome obstacles and complete the exams for all students.”
Al -Khaddour believes that there is no safe place in the West Bank, and that storming any area of the occupation army is possible. However, the ministry tried to open secondary exam halls in the safest places.
The number of students enrolled in high school diplomas who were displaced from the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps for nearly two thousand students.
After being expelled from their camps, these people were distributed throughout the provinces of Tulkarm and Jenin, where some of them joined the villages schools as two parties west of Jenin, and worshiped south.
High school exams in Palestine begin this year on June 21. And for the second year without students Gaza Strip Those prohibited by the war were completing their educational career.