Foreign solidarity activists participate in building school in the Jordan Valley

[ 26/04/2011 - 06:04 PM ]

JENIN, (PIC)-- Foreign solidarity activists along with Palestinian citizens started on Tuesday in building a school in Ras Al-Oje southeast of Tobas in the Jordan Valley .

Citizens in the area told the PIC reporter over the phone that more than 70 Palestinians and foreign solidarity activists laid down the foundation stone of the school.

They said that the school was named after the slain Italian activist Vittorio Arrigone to affirm that the killing of the Italian activist would not deter foreign sympathizers from pursuing their support for the Palestinian people.

They said that the school would be built of straw and mud, and added that they welcome any material or financial donations. They noted that the school was built solely depending on their own resources.

The school is meant to ascertain the right of 70 students in the area in learning, they said.

Ras Al-Oje is deprived of all services and is inhabited by around 300 Bedouin families, who had been expelled from their land by the Israeli occupation authority for the sake of building an army camp back in 1982.

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