Palestinians slam 'Holocaust lessons'

Thu Mar 3, 2011

Palestinians have strongly condemned a UN plan to teach the "Holocaust subject” as part of its human rights curriculum to Palestinian students in UN-run schools in Gaza.

Hamas said on Wednesday that it would do everything in its power to prevent children from being taught about the Holocaust in schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a Press TV correspondent reported from Gaza.

Press TV tried to get more clarification on this matter but UNRWA officials declined comment on the issue.

Many Gazans say that the UNRWA plan to teach the "Holocaust subject" as part of its so-called human rights curriculum will help Israel justify its occupation of Palestinian territories.

The ministry of education in Gaza said that it will not allow UNRWA to exceed its mandate, arguing that the ministry considered this as an intervention in internal affairs of the Palestinians.

The refugee affairs committee for Hamas -- the democratically-elected Palestinian government in Gaza -- also condemned the move and described UNRWA's role as biased.

With this move, the international agency (UNRWA) is ignoring decades of Palestinian sufferings and massacres perpetrated at the hands of the occupying regime of Israel, it complained.

The UNRWA provides humanitarian services to over one million Palestinian refugees in Gaza and about 200,000 students attend UN-run schools in the Israeli-blockaded coastal territory.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/167925.html.