Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank have started the new school year in improvised tents after Israeli authorities demolished their classrooms the day before term began.
Around 80 children aged five to 10 from the village of Jub-Ad-Dhib had to attend classes in cramped tarpaulin tents or under the hot sun on Wednesday.
One day earlier, Israeli authorities had decided to confiscate and destroy steel terrapin cabins used as school buildings along with other educational equipment.
The area was sealed off, declared a military zone, and security forces used stun grenades to keep residents away, Israeli human rights group BTselem said in a statement.
Israeli media said that locals had thrown stones at soldiers during the demolition.
The six newly installed cabins, donated by the EU, were put in place so that local children did not have to walk an hour to get to school.
Over the past two weeks, four Palestinian communities have seen their educational facilities donated by international bodies and NGOs destroyed on the grounds that they had been built without proper planning permission.
The security forces also removed solar panels powering a school for Bedouin children near Jerusalem on 9 August, ignoring a High Court petition over their removal in the process.
The High Court ended up issuing a temporary restraining order against removing the panels, but it came an hour after they had already been dismantled.
