Israeli forces block Palestinian student protest after barring access to school

Israeli forces disperse student protest in West Bank village after settler roadblock cuts off school access for over a week, amid a documented surge in violence. | Contesto: cronaca

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• Israeli forces block Palestinian student protest after barring access to school

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Israeli forces dispersed a protest by Palestinian schoolchildren in the village of Umm al-Khair, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, on Sunday, 19 April 2026. The demonstration was a direct response to the closure of a vital access road, which had prevented 55 students from reaching their schools for over a week. Armed troops and security dogs were present as the children, holding signs, gathered to demand their right to education. The crisis began when a settler leader from the neighbouring Carmel settlement, identified as Nivo, blocked the 1.5-meter-wide road with a 50-meter barbed wire fence. Khalil Hathaleen, a local education official and parent, stated the road was the primary route to the school. The only alternative footpath, residents say, winds through an illegal settlement outpost established after the killing of a prominent Palestinian teacher, Awdah Hathaleen, by a settler. Ahmad Hathaleen, another resident, condemned the closure as a deliberate attack on children's most basic rights. "These actions. consist of vicious acts against children, aimed at depriving them of the most basic right: education," he said. The incident is not isolated but part of a broader pattern of pressure on Umm al-Khair, a community of refugees displaced in 1948 who have lived on purchased land for decades. The Israeli settlement of Carmel was built on adjacent Palestinian land in the 1980s. Villagers describe the roadblock as part of a coercive strategy, alleging that settlers have proposed alternative, dangerous three-kilometer paths as a "solution." "We are denouncing these 'solutions' by the settlers, end of story," Ahmad Hathaleen said, vowing that families "will not back down." This latest restriction occurs against a backdrop of sharply escalating settler violence across the West Bank, which UN data and local reports indicate has intensified since the war in Gaza began. A UN report from March documented over 36,000 Palestinians displaced between November 2024 and October 2025 due to settler attacks. During that period, 1,732 violent incidents causing casualties or property damage were recorded—a 25 percent annual increase. More than 1,150 Palestinians have...

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