Dozens of female students at Al-Samu’ Secondary School for Girls suffocated today, Thursday, during the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of the town of Al-Samu’, south of Hebron.

The Directorate of Education in South Hebron denounced what the occupation forces threw poisonous gas towards Al-Samo’ Girls Secondary School, which led to a number of school students suffocating, and a number of them were transferred to Yatta Governmental Hospital and nearby medical centers to receive treatment.

The Director General of Education, Yasser Saleh, denounced this fierce attack on schools, and these sabotage occupation acts that fall within a series of ongoing violations at the national level, which express the occupation’s policy of targeting schools, which is inconsistent with international norms and conventions that guarantee the sanctity of schools and the right of students to education.