Topic: Gaza Strip

The principal of an Israeli school near Gaza has been summoned before the education ministry over a textbook giving Israel and Palestinian narratives of the conflict, a newspaper said on Monday.The textbook, "Learning the Historical Narrative of the Other," covers both Israeli ...
They have even more reason to smile, too. Palestinian children who have benefited from the literacy programs of the Ramallah-based Tamer Institute for Community Education can celebrate the institute's 2009 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which carries a $578,000 prize.. Last year's winner ...

Gaza population reaches 1.4 million: census

The population of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has passed 1.4 million people, an increase of nearly 40 percent over the past 10 years, an official Palestinian census published Sunday said.The census found that as of 2007 the population of the territory had ...
A Canadian school union aims to ban visiting Israeli academics from teaching at local universities to protest an Israeli attack last week that damaged the Islamic University in Gaza, it said.The resolution calls for a ban on Israeli academics doing speaking, teaching ...
Israeli Academics Demand Freedom of Movement for Palestinian StudentsA group of internationally renowned Israeli authors and university presidents demanded Wednesday that Israel grant Palestinian students from the Gaza Strip free movement to superior universities in the West Bank.In a joint letter to ...