Students at UN schools in Gaza learn war tactics

Instead of sticks and stones, rockets and stones
Jan. 29, 2009

The Associated Press reports from a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school where a teacher was filmed asking children about their trauma during the war. The teacher told the children that Palestinians have to “wage war against them (Israelis) until they leave their land,” and asked her students, aged about 8, how they should react.

Two children in the class suggested hurling stones or rockets back at Israel. “Okay,” the teacher said, apparently summing up her class’ position. “We throw rockets at them, we throw stones at them,” she said.

The UN said such behavior is “completely unacceptable,” and that the teacher would likely be removed once identified. However, this points to UN’s repeated lack of neutrality in the conflict.