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UN schools are 'teaching kids jihad'

December 11, 2014 11:35

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Josh Jackman,

Josh Jackman

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Middle East monitors have accused the United Nations Relief and Works Agency of teaching Palestinian children "a curriculum of war".

The criticism of Unwra, which provides humanitarian services to Palestinian refugees and their descendants, came during a during a panel discussion on the UN agency's role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the House of Commons this week.

Bassem Eid, director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, said that Unwra schools in the Palestinian territories use textbooks that are "based on principles of jihad, martyrdom and right of return by force of arms".

Dr Arnon Groiss, previously a director at the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance, said that some of the books "focus on three education fundamentals regarding the conflict: the delegitimisation of Israel, the demonisation of Israel and the armed struggle against Israel.