The Directorate of Education in Tubas and the Northern Jordan Valley said that the Israeli occupation forces prevented teachers from passing to the schools of the Northern Jordan Valley today, Sunday, through the Hamra military checkpoint.

The Director of Education in the governorate, Azmi Balawneh, reported that the occupation forces prevented about 100 members of the teaching staff in the northern Jordan Valley from reaching their schools.

He added that the teaching staff were riding three buses and were unable to reach the schools, and that the students of the Bedouin camps were unable to reach their schools in the Jordan Valley after the Ministry of Education bus carrying them was obstructed from passing.

The educational process in the schools of the northern Jordan Valley is witnessing a major disruption and decline, due to the occupation’s tightening of measures at the checkpoints leading to the Jordan Valley, and the frequent obstruction of the passage of teaching staff.

The Ministry of Education and Higher Education is facing difficulties and challenges in the Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas directorates in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the northern West Bank governorates, and as a result of the occupation’s military checkpoints that cut off the cities and towns in the West Bank, which forced it to convert a number of schools to e-learning, or even lose school days due to the occupation’s violations.

Since the "ceasefire" in the Gaza Strip came into effect on January 19, the Israeli occupation has tightened its military measures in the West Bank, by installing barriers and iron gates at the entrances to Palestinian villages and cities.

The number of military checkpoints and iron gates installed by the occupation in the West Bank reached 898 checkpoints and gates, including 18 iron gates installed by the occupation since the beginning of this year 2025, and (146) iron gates installed by the occupation after October 7, 2023, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.