Lower thirds:
00:02 Report by Fanny Facsar
01:31 Fanny Facsar | Senior International Correspondent | Shufat Camp, East Jerusalem
02:17 Mounir Marjieh | International Advocacy Coordinator
02:50 Ahed Othman | Former UNRWA teacher

Script:

Broll children hanging around in Shufat camp, on motor cycles or talking on the street]
TC 00:01 These children have a lot of time on their hands now – at this hour they’d normally be in class studying for final exams before the school year ends. 

+++ SOT Mohamad (Vox teenager, Arabic) 
TC 00:10 “Before they closed our school, my dream was simply to continue studying. Now we don’t even have  the right to go to school. This is tyranny.” 

[Broll UNRWA schools, locked door, FF watching video of shut down, then clip]
TC 00:21 Mohamad is one of about 800 students affected by the recent shutdown of UNRWA schools in East Jerusalem.  

TC 00:29  Locals were filming when Israeli police came to the schools. 

[Video May 8th, Shufat camp, source: private filmed via smartphone, vertical] 
TC 00:33 
+++ SOT Israeli Police (With order in his hand) “This is an order from the Ministry of Education” (Arabic) 
TC 00:35
+++ School official “But the school does not belong to the municipality nor the ministry of education” (Arabic)

[Broll UNRWA schools drone shot, then drone Broll Shuifat camp, FF walking through] 
TC 00:41 UNRWA operates under a UN mandate, but Israel has shut down its operations in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, where it claims jurisdictional control. 

TC 00:52 Three of the six UNRWA schools in East Jerusalem are in Shufat Camp, which was built after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. 

(images of poverty in Shufat, various Broll Shufat)
TC 01:01 Life here is marked by poverty, unemployment, and frequent Israeli raids. 

TC 01:08
+++ PTC Fanny Facsar, Senior International Correspondent  [English]
The closure of these schools has made a bleak end to the school year for hundreds of students, their families, and teachers - two months early. We wanted to hear from families affected, but many told us they were too worried to talk with us. They said they were scared of reprisals afterwards if they did. 

(Broll Jerusalem municipality for Education, Israeli flag] 
TC 01:26 Education is a fundamental right for everyone in Israel regardless of their religion or ethnicity. But neither the Israeli municipality nor the education ministry agreed to grant us an interview. Officially they say, they aim to integrate Palestinians into Israeli public schools.

(Walk and Talk with Palestinian advocat] 
TC 01:48 That is not an option for the students says Munir Marijeh, an advocate for Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Apart from logistical obstacles to accessing Israeli public schools, it’s also about the different curriculum and about identity.

+++ Mounir Marjieh, International advocacy coordinator for Palestinians in East Jerusalem (English)
TC 02:01  “It is not an alternative basically. Israel is trying to impose colonial education, this colonial education seeks to control the minds of the Palestinians, perspectively to annihilate the longed for desire for self determination.  Israel is trying to erase the Palestinian identity, the collective Palestinian memory, the Palestinian narrative and replace it with an Israeli one” 

[Broll Ahed Othman, teacher, FF talking]
TC 02:24 Ahed Othman has been a teacher at UNRWA for three decades. He’s out of a job now, but he is more worried about his students and what will happen to them without schooling.

+++ SOT Ahed Othman, former UNRWA teacher [Arabic]
TC 02:25 “When you throw the students  onto the streets, what future will they have? Shufat is the only refugee camp in Jerusalem and the camp can turn into an epicenter for drugs, weapon and gangs. So it is only a question of time until they [the students] go into a bad direction”

(Broll Shufat, then ending on Mohamed talking to FF]
TC 02:55 Sending children to private schools could be an alternative to avoiding an Israeli curriculum – but here in this camp hardly anyone can afford it. Mohamed would like to become a lawyer one day, he tells us. But without further education, that dream will be impossible to realize. 03:13