Over 1,500 North American Academics Condemn Scholasticide in Gaza

The Open Letter makes seven calls to action:

  1. An immediate and permanent ceasefire and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages;
  2. Israel’s compliance with the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice; 
  3. An end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and its occupation, so that the educational sector can be rebuilt; 
  4. Full access of United Nations agencies to the Occupied Palestinian Territories to carry out independent monitoring, investigation, and humanitarian coordination; 
  5. All States that have suspended funding to UNRWA – the UN agency which runs many of the Strip’s now closed elementary and secondary schools – to immediately resume funding; 
  6. North American universities, governments, NGOs and individual academics to support the reconstruction of educational institutions in Gaza, through financial and in-kind contributions; and 
  7. State and individual accountability under domestic and international law mechanisms.

 

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