and the need to develop policies and take measures to reduce violence within schools. This can be
in cooperation and full partnership with relevant governmental and private institutions and with
the involvement of the Parents Council and the local community in developing and approving
these policies. There is a need for the Ministry of Education to continue providing the necessary
financial resources by the Palestinian government to integrate and increase the number of students
with disabilities in education, by creating the school environment necessary to accommodate and
empower them, just like the rest of other students. Added to the above, the need for strengthening
efforts to expand compulsory education and raise enrollment rates in kindergartens and at the
secondary schools, in particular the professional branches thereof, especially for females, persons
with disabilities, and the groups that are vulnerable and marginalized because of the current
situation and the law.
Chapter Three
Evaluation of the official institutions' responses to the ICHR regarding complaints