The club stated in a statement that "the Israeli army arrested 118 high school students (Tawjihi) before and during their final exams, based on statistics from the Ministry of Education."
This coincided with the Palestinian Ministry of Education's announcement of the high school results, according to the same statement.
The Prisoners' Club added that "since the beginning of the war of extermination on Gaza, the occupation has prevented hundreds of prisoners and detainees from completing their education inside prisons." It noted that "the occupation has sought, with all the tools at its disposal, to undermine the role of the student movement, which constituted one of the most prominent pillars of the Palestinian struggle."
Earlier on Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Education announced the results of the first round of high school exams in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Minister of Education and Higher Education Amjad Barham said during a press conference in the central city of Ramallah, "This season came amid unprecedented Israeli targeting of the education system in the Gaza Strip, where 27 schools were completely destroyed, and more than 16,000 students and approximately 750 teachers were martyred."
Barham added that the students "took the exams despite the difficult conditions in Gaza, the repeated invasions of the Jenin and Tulkarm governorates (northern West Bank), and the presence of tanks and displacement." He announced that "the number of students who took the exams reached 52,000, including 2,000 outside the homeland in 37 countries."
Israel holds approximately 10,800 Palestinians in its prisons, including approximately 450 children, 50 female prisoners, and 3,629 administrative detainees, according to official Palestinian data. This data does not include the thousands of cases of "enforced disappearance" of detainees from the Gaza Strip.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation army and settlers have escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, resulting in the deaths of at least 1,008 Palestinians and the injury of approximately 7,000 others, according to Palestinian data.
This coincides with a genocidal war waged by Israel in Gaza since October 7, 2023, which has left more than 204,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, and a famine that has claimed the lives of many.
