Occupation forces have arrested 65 Tawjihi students in the West Bank since the start of the year, four of them during the exam period itself. None of them sat the general secondary exams. The 2026 results came out on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ululations rang out across Palestinian cities and towns that morning, and the results filled homes with celebration. The 65 were missing from all of it. Nothing about the exam kept them away. Israeli occupation prisons did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From arrest to administrative detention<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Arrest was not the end of it. The occupation placed one student under administrative detention for six months, without charge or trial. He lost his right to finish the school year, and no one can say what becomes of his studies now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The occupation reaches students even at the most sensitive point in their education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dozens denied the exam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dozens of students could not sit their exams at all because they are inside occupation prisons, the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education said as the results came out. The ministry wants them freed and back in class. Denying students their right to education is a flagrant violation of the basic rights guaranteed by international covenants, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No certificate to frame<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Other houses had their photographs of top scorers and their messages of congratulation. In the homes of the detained students there was no certificate to frame, and no exam any of them had been allowed to sit. The families waited instead, and worried about their children inside prisons where human rights organizations document harsh conditions and continuous neglect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For these families, results day was something else: pride in their children’s classmates, and the pain of an absence forced on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The students did not fail. The occupation arrested them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A third exceptional school year<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This was the third exceptional school year in a row. Palestinian students, above all in Gaza, kept going through displacement, tents, and destruction, the ministry said. Thousands of them made it to their exam halls. The students held in prison are proof that the occupation still targets Palestinian education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Their right to learn now hangs on what the occupation decides. The international guarantees that should protect students and see them through to the end of their studies are missing. The occupation set them a different test: endurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Occupation forces have arrested 65 Tawjihi students in the West Bank since the start of the year, four of them during the exam period itself. None of them sat the general secondary exams. The 2026 results came out on Friday. Ululations rang out across Palestinian cities and towns that morning, and the results filled homes …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[149,506,39,527,27,438],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","tag-child-prisoners","tag-imprisons-childhood","tag-israeli-prisons","tag-palestinian-students","tag-political-prisoners","tag-tawjihi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asramedia.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asramedia.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asramedia.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asramedia.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asramedia.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asramedia.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/asramedia.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asramedia.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asramedia.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asramedia.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asramedia.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}