violence in schools and to evaluate and update its approved programs on this subject to create a safe and violence-free environment inside schools. The Commission received (29) complaints that included allegations of violations to the right to education, including (6) complaints in the Gaza Strip and (23) complaints in the West Bank. The complaints that the Commission received in the West Bank included (12) complaints affecting academic freedom, (2) complaints related to the provision of the right to public education for persons with disabilities and persons with learning difficulties, in addition to complaining against violence against them, (4) complaints related to the right to continue schooling, (3) complaints related to the right to continue higher education and (1) complaint related to the provision of basic requirements for a school that suffers lack of public services, in addition to (1) complaint related to solving the problem of morning and evening shifts for a school located in a remote area. In the Gaza Strip, the distribution of complaints was as follows: (2) complaints related to the request of the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to investigate the subject of placing the name of the complainant on what is known as the blacklist and preventing him from traveling through the Palestinian crossings to complete his studies abroad, (1) a complaint related to the request of the Ministry of Education to investigate the issue of expelling a student from school due to a disagreement with the school director and (1) complaint related to a request by graduates of a university college, in the Gaza Strip, to the Ministry of Education to recognize their diplomas, (1) complaint asking the Higher Judicial Council and the Ministry of Interior to investigate the issue of preventing the complainant from traveling to complete her university education under the pretext that she was single and her parents were separated and (1) complaint asking the General Intelligence Service to investigate the circumstances of summoning the complainant and detaining him grounds of conducting a field survey (filling out forms) in order to prepare research for a university in the West Bank. The Ministry of Education has formed (117) investigation committees for violations attributed to employees, (19) of them for violations related to morning delay and frequent absence, (16) violations for beating and violence against students, (18) violations for refraining from performing the duty , (13) offenses for speaking obscene words, (7) offenses for abuse via social media, (4) offenses for sexual harassment, (4) offense for forging official documents, (7) offenses for theft and illicit gain and (29) other violations. Additionally, (38) employees were suspended from work as a pre-emptive measure for disciplinary investigation (11) job removal decisions due to absence from work for a period of more than (15) continuous days for unjustified reasons.40 Within the framework of its vision for realizing the right to education, the Commission stresses the need for the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Finance to increase the budget of the Ministry of Education and for the Ministry of Education to increase development expenditures, which will enable improving the quality and outputs of educational, implementing programs related to literacy and adult education and integrating the pre-school education in the public educational structure; so as to implement the provisions of the law on public education and the construction of new schools, especially in the Gaza Strip, to reduce overcrowding in the classroom, Message from the Ministry of Education received by the Commission on 01/29/2020. 40