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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					27/02/2011 &#8211; 09:31 AM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">JORDAN VALLEY, (PIC)&#8211; Palestinian  activists sat in at the Ain al-Halwa school in the northern Jordan  Valley on Saturday with hopes to raise awareness on the Israeli  occupation which has rendered meeting the educational needs of Area C  impossible.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The ”save the Jordan Valley” campaign, one  of the sit-in organizers, said Israeli policies have hampered the  building of schools, and military checkpoints have restricted movement  of teachers and students.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Israeli authorities have pursued a policy  of destruction of private and public facilities including schools, said  Wahba Usfour, a sit-in coordinator, citing as an example what happened  in Khirbet Tana, a village east of the city of Nablus with a population  of about 300.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In October 2010, Israel leveled there 30  structures including a school, houses and animal stables. Of the 40  students frequenting the local school before the demolition, only 17 had  continued to hold studies in a small tent.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Usfour said a similar situation has  appeared in the Bedouin community of Ain al-Halwa in the northern Jordan  Valley, where children frequenting the nearby Tayasir village school  have been forced to cross a military checkpoint daily to attend class  and subjected to harassment by soldiers.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Soldiers at times force students out of the buses and walk 13 km by foot to go back to their homes.</p>
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