{"id":195208,"date":"2004-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=195208"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:57:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:57:45","slug":"auto-insert-195208","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-195208\/","title":{"rendered":"International Children&#8217;s Day &#8211; Fact Sheet &#8211; OCHA report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"5px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">UNITED NATIONS<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN&#39;S DAY<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>JUNE 2004<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span> [<a href=\"~parts\/Children_June2004_Flash.swf\" id=\"Children_June2004_Flash.swf\">Children_June2004_Flash.swf<\/a>] <\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>FACT SHEET<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"5px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Population Statistics<\/strong>: (UNFPA, UNICEF)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">1.8 million Palestinian children live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">&nbsp;53% of the Palestinian population are children under 18 years old.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">1.2 million Palestinian children are of school age.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Since September 2000:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">UNICEF, UNFPA, UNRWA, UNOHCHR<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">More than 670 children have been killed, of which 573 were Palestinian and 105 Israeli.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">Over 2,500 Palestinian homes or buildings have been destroyed affecting more than 6,000 children.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">Almost 2,000 Palestinian children have been arrested, interrogated, detained or imprisoned.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">Currently, 337 Palestinian children are in Israeli prisons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Restricting Access to Schools:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The movement restrictions, delays at checkpoints and the lengthy detours taken to reach schools have lead to schools closing and increased absences for both students and teachers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">In the 2002-2003 school year, UNRWA&#39;s 95 schools in the West Bank serving 60,000 school children, reported:<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">1,475 lost school days.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">A daily average of 145 teachers unable to reach their schools. This constituted 9% of the UNRWA teaching staff and cost UNRWA $831,230 USD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Deteriorating quality of education:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">School drop-out rates have decreased mostly because students have transferred to other schools. However, the quality of education continues to suffer as a result of the closures, the Barrier, and violence in civilian areas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">Pass rates in UNRWA West Bank schools declined dramatically for the 2003\/2004 school year compared to 2000\/2001. In particular:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t+ Arabic language for 8th grade dropped by 12.1% (from 76.7% to 64.6%).\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t+ Mathematics 6th grade dropped by 35.1% (from 68.7% to 33.6%).\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t+ Science for 4th grade dropped by 33.5% (from 71.5% to 38%).\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">In a survey of its schools, UNRWA found a 20% rate of hyper-tension symptoms, 16% low achievement rate, and an 11.5% rate of fear and anxiety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">A comparison done in April 2003 of pass rates between an UNRWA elementary school inTulkarm camp, which is subjected to frequent IDF incursions and curfews, and another UNRWA elementary school in the relatively calm nearby Nur Shams camp, demonstrates the effects of such violence:<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27429%27%20height%3D%27151%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20429%20151%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27429%27%20height%3D%27151%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/0412831a90b9db8785256eac005603e7_image0.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"151px\" width=\"429px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Hope for the next generation:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Source: PCBS\/UNICEF\/UNFPA Youth Survey 2003<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">One of the most enduring qualities of children is their sense of hope for a better future. In a recent survey of approximately 4,300 Palestinian youths between the ages of 10-24:<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">58.9% of the youth state that their first concern is their education.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">13.3% use the computer and 5.8% use the internet.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial Narrow, san-serif;\">91% are optimistic about the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27873%27%20height%3D%27118%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20873%20118%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27873%27%20height%3D%27118%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/0412831a90b9db8785256eac005603e7_image1.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"118px\" width=\"873px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN&#39;S DAY JUNE 2004 &nbsp; [Children_June2004_Flash.swf] FACT SHEET Population Statistics: (UNFPA, UNICEF) 1.8 million Palestinian children live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. &nbsp;53% of the Palestinian population are children under 18 years old. 1.2 million Palestinian children are of school age. 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