JERUSALEM, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Some 150 Palestinian schools in East Jerusalem on Monday shut their doors to protest against attempts of the Israeli government to censor the textbooks and impose the Israeli curriculum in classrooms.
About 100,000 students refrained from going to their schools in compliance with the strike, a warning step after the Israeli government began taking punitive measures against schools to force them to "drop the Palestinian narrative from the curricula they teach and to include the Israeli narrative only," official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
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