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Rows of children alternated by gender lined up outside their school, sitting crossed legged under the freshly risen sun. They were anxious to enjoy the balmy weather that tells of the end of winter, all of them hoping that school would be dismissed before classes began, as has happened repeatedly during the past several weeks.

Squeals of laughter dissipated as teachers at Tuqu Primary School lined up in front of the rows. The children stood and began singing the national anthem in the bored tone typically replicated in classrooms across the world.

As they finish, the children were escorted row-by-row to dilapidated classrooms that fill the village school.

After the students settled in their rooms, around 20 teachers gathered in a circle discussing the same subject that every public school teacher has been talking about across the occupied West Bank - the strike.

Twenty minutes later a decision was made. Roll-call was taken and the children released from school. The strike, which affects over one million Palestinian pupils, it seemed would continue for another day.

On Tuesday around 20,000 Palestinian public teachers gathered in the governmental-hub of Ramallah to call for the 2013 agreement made between the Palestinian Teachers’ Union and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to be implemented, local media reported.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-teachers-continue-strike-after-pa-arrests-educators-1647516195

Palestinian Authority arrests photographer over Instagram post

A Palestinian user of Instagram spent Monday night in a Palestinian Authority jail cell after posting a photo of a police officer to the social media site.

The Instagram user spoke to The Electronic Intifada on condition of anonymity due to fear of PA reprisals.

The Instagram user was in a Ramallah-area village taking photos as part of their office job. The user took a photo of a PA police officer and later decided to post it to their personal Instagram account.

The police officer was not identifiable from the photo, as his face was cropped out, the Instagram user said. Statistics about the PA were posted alongside the photo, such as the fact that 80 percent of the PA’s revenue comes from foreign governments or taxes that are controlled by Israel.

For this, PA police later arrested the Instagram user, threatened them with violence and kept them in a cell overnight.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/palestinian-authority-arrests-photographer-over-instagram-post