4.9.06

Educação na violência

Palestinian teachers began striking Saturday, the start of the school year, to demand full back pay and regular salaries from the Hamas-led government, which has been financially crippled by six months of international sanctions.
Most schools throughout the West Bank remained closed, some by force, as the strike continued.
At least three masked militants stood outside a school in the northern West Bank city of Nablus and fired in the air to keep children away, witnesses said.
Stray fire hit a 12-year-old boy, Issam Ghannam, in the abdomen, witnesses said.(...)

The strike was widely viewed as a tactic by Fatah to pressure Hamas to join it in a national unity government.

[News.Yahoo]