[1] Nasser al-Shaer, the former Minister of Education was arrested by Israeli authorities twice for membership in Hamas and released both times.
[citation needed] Marwan Awartani was appointed minister in 2019 and served from April 14, 2019 until his resignation was accepted on September 3, 2023.
[2] Throughout 2001-2005, the ministry finalized the establishment of a Palestinian national curriculum by hiring teachers and providing classrooms and books.
According to a Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (2021), there are 1,309,000 school students in grades K-12 across the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.
[5][6] Hamas suppressed this book of folk tales, which featured the female oral tradition of Palestinian hikaye, from public school libraries on the grounds that the stories used colloquial and sometimes offensive language that was unsuitable for teaching children.