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Around 98,400 Palestinian students did not attend school in Jerusalem on Monday, as all observed a full-day strike protesting the forceful imposition of the Israeli curriculum by the Israeli education ministry.
 
The strike was called for by the union of parents committees and supported by all Palestinian factions and civil society organisations.
 
The move was announced during the weekend, after , against the Israeli attempts to impose Israeli textbooks on the schools' administration.

Palestinian schools in Jerusalem launched a general strike in resistance to the Israeli regime's attempt to impose its curriculum and school books on Palestinian children.

— Dr. Yara Hawari د. يارا هواري (@yarahawari)

"For years, we as families have provided the Palestinian curriculum textbooks for our schools in Jerusalem," Falasteen Zughayer, mother of a 5th grader and member of the parents' committee of Kufr Aqab, told °®Âþµº.
 
that is historically and administratively part of the city, but has been separated by the illegal Israeli wall.
 
"About a month ago, one week before the beginning of the school year, the Israeli ministry of education sent Israeli textbooks to our schools and informed the directors that if they don't teach them, they will be dismissed from their jobs," Zughayer said.

Palestinian parents and students organized demonstrations in several neighbourhoods of occupied Jerusalem in protest against Israeli attempts at preventing schools from teaching Palestinian textbooks.

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"The parents' committees union had various discussions with ," she said. "It was then that we decided to take matters into our own hands and began protest actions."
 
Palestinian schools in Jerusalem are either public, run directly by the Israeli education ministry, refugees agency, or private, including Islamic and , run by the Islamic endowments department, the 'Waqf', or by the church.
 
"All have responded to the call to strike, which shows that our refusal of the Israeli curriculum is unanimous," stressed Falasteen Zughayer.

It was only in 2006 that Palestinians completed the school textbooks for grades 1-12.

Prior to 1994, Palestinian textbooks that contained any sense of Palestinian nationalism were confiscated; students and teachers could be arrested and even killed (2013)

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"We all see this as an attempt to Israelize our children," she added. "This is part of the occupation's efforts to erase Jerusalem's Palestinian identity by distorting our children's education."
 
Photos circulated on Palestinian social media of the Israeli textbooks depicted how the material is considered problematic for Palestinians.
 
One excerpt from the textbooks claims that  and that it has grown since the foundation of the state which has built new '' in it.

 
Another page in the Israeli textbook depicts a dialogue between three children, stating that the state [of Israel] had '' and brought electricity and health insurance to its people before the three children decided to sing the Israeli anthem.
 
In another passage, children are taught about the sanctity of the Sabbath in the Jewish faith, while another full page shows the flags of the countries surrounding 'the homeland', namely Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon, with the Israeli flag at the centre.

It was only in 2006 that Palestinians completed the school textbooks for grades 1-12.

Prior to 1994, Palestinian textbooks that contained any sense of Palestinian nationalism were confiscated; students and teachers could be arrested and even killed (2013)

— Al-Shabaka الشبكة (@AlShabaka)

"," said Falasteen Zughayer. "We will continue to protest until the Israeli ministry allows us to teach our own history and culture to our children."
 
In late July, over accusations of "incitement" against Israel in the Palestinian textbooks.
 
Eastern Jerusalem, where all Palestinian schools are located, in a move that has ever since been considered by most countries illegal under international law.