Published : 02-03-2018
The Action Group’s correspondent in south Damascus, reported that ISIS banned the teachers from leaving Yarmouk camp to the neighboring town of Yelda. He added that ISIS asked teachers to review its security office inside the camp, where ISIS will decide on the upcoming procedures it will take against them, under the pretext of "being sinful and in need of repentance.”
In the meantime, the educational process deteriorated during 2017, as a result of the unfair decisions that were made by ISIS, through which it tightened its procedures against teachers, negatively affecting approximately 1500 students in Yarmouk camp. On 3rd of August 2016, ISIS issued a decision to close all schools inside the camp, and banned the teaching staff from working except through ISIS. This decision came after ISIS called in all the teachers in Yarmouk camp, to inform them of a number of decisions regarding the educational process for the academic year 2016-2017. ISIS also asked the teachers wanting to work as civilians and without being related to ISIS, to register their names within a week, with a monthly salary of 25000 Syrian pounds, which is equivalent to $50.
The students and teachers were also threatened to enroll in schools of ISIS’s will and held the parents accountable for not applying for their children in ISIS’s schools, vowing to punish or deport anyone who disobeys its decisions.
In the beginning of the new academic year 2017, the same practices continued, however intensified in terms of restrictions on teachers and students and scrutinizing the vocabulary of the school curriculums, describing them as “infidel.” On the 19th of December 2016, the first day of schools in Syria, ISIS banned the opening of the schools for the students of the camp, and limited their attendance to two schools; one for the boys near the Ibrahim Khalil Mosque in Al-Orouba neighborhood in the south of the camp, and another for the girls in Al-Hajar Al-Aswad, which is ISIS’s stronghold in the south of the camp. ISIS imposed new curriculums it had prepared.
ISIS also issued a decision to prevent students and teachers living in Yarmouk camp from leaving to the town of Yelda, to continue their education. After the parents and camp’s representatives intervened, it later withdrew its decision, however, it continued to intimidate and put pressure on the students by allowing the residents, without the students, to pass through the Yelda - Yarmouk camp checkpoint, while banning the students of all ages to cross. This came amid a systematic policy followed by ISIS against the students of the camp, using flimsy excuses to try to justify its unhuman actions. Yarmouk camp witnessed ISIS’s tightening of its procedures against the students of the camp who go to continue their education in the alternative schools in the towns adjacent to the camp, where its members confiscated many books and school supplies from the students.
In another context, clashes between ISIS and the armed opposition factions broke out yesterday, at the Salikha axis in the Tadamon neighborhood in the south of Damascus, with no injuries reported. Meanwhile, the meeting points between ISIS and Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham witnessed a cautious calm.
ISIS continues to drill and isolate the lines of contact between it and Tahrir Al-Sham, in addition to the meeting points at the outskirts of the town of Yelda, which are controlled by the opposition factions.
In the meantime, the regime’s army and the Popular Front Groups - General Command, continue to impose their strict siege on Yarmouk camp for the 1687th consecutive day.
The Action Group’s correspondent in south Damascus, reported that ISIS banned the teachers from leaving Yarmouk camp to the neighboring town of Yelda. He added that ISIS asked teachers to review its security office inside the camp, where ISIS will decide on the upcoming procedures it will take against them, under the pretext of "being sinful and in need of repentance.”
In the meantime, the educational process deteriorated during 2017, as a result of the unfair decisions that were made by ISIS, through which it tightened its procedures against teachers, negatively affecting approximately 1500 students in Yarmouk camp. On 3rd of August 2016, ISIS issued a decision to close all schools inside the camp, and banned the teaching staff from working except through ISIS. This decision came after ISIS called in all the teachers in Yarmouk camp, to inform them of a number of decisions regarding the educational process for the academic year 2016-2017. ISIS also asked the teachers wanting to work as civilians and without being related to ISIS, to register their names within a week, with a monthly salary of 25000 Syrian pounds, which is equivalent to $50.
The students and teachers were also threatened to enroll in schools of ISIS’s will and held the parents accountable for not applying for their children in ISIS’s schools, vowing to punish or deport anyone who disobeys its decisions.
In the beginning of the new academic year 2017, the same practices continued, however intensified in terms of restrictions on teachers and students and scrutinizing the vocabulary of the school curriculums, describing them as “infidel.” On the 19th of December 2016, the first day of schools in Syria, ISIS banned the opening of the schools for the students of the camp, and limited their attendance to two schools; one for the boys near the Ibrahim Khalil Mosque in Al-Orouba neighborhood in the south of the camp, and another for the girls in Al-Hajar Al-Aswad, which is ISIS’s stronghold in the south of the camp. ISIS imposed new curriculums it had prepared.
ISIS also issued a decision to prevent students and teachers living in Yarmouk camp from leaving to the town of Yelda, to continue their education. After the parents and camp’s representatives intervened, it later withdrew its decision, however, it continued to intimidate and put pressure on the students by allowing the residents, without the students, to pass through the Yelda - Yarmouk camp checkpoint, while banning the students of all ages to cross. This came amid a systematic policy followed by ISIS against the students of the camp, using flimsy excuses to try to justify its unhuman actions. Yarmouk camp witnessed ISIS’s tightening of its procedures against the students of the camp who go to continue their education in the alternative schools in the towns adjacent to the camp, where its members confiscated many books and school supplies from the students.
In another context, clashes between ISIS and the armed opposition factions broke out yesterday, at the Salikha axis in the Tadamon neighborhood in the south of Damascus, with no injuries reported. Meanwhile, the meeting points between ISIS and Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham witnessed a cautious calm.
ISIS continues to drill and isolate the lines of contact between it and Tahrir Al-Sham, in addition to the meeting points at the outskirts of the town of Yelda, which are controlled by the opposition factions.
In the meantime, the regime’s army and the Popular Front Groups - General Command, continue to impose their strict siege on Yarmouk camp for the 1687th consecutive day.
