UNRWA Working To Amend Curricula In Its West Bank And Gaza Schools; PA, Hamas Oppose This | MEMRI

It has recently been reported that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) means to introduce changes to the curricula of the schools it operates in the West Bank and Gaza. The changes, to be introduced in stages, affect various subjects and pertain to both political and socio-cultural issues. They include removing elements that UNRWA regards as compromising the political neutrality of its educational materials, such as maps showing Palestine from the river to the sea or references to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in lessons on unrelated topics. Other changes pertain to gender, such as replacing some pictures of boys with pictures of girls or of boys and girls together.