The metal prefabricated building, in Ein Samiya Al-Badawi, was built last January. And the ramshackle, dangerous building appears to have been built deliberately to be demolished, so Israel looks bad.
I'm not convinced that the building was ever used as a school. The only photos of video I can find of the interior show some desks and even schoolbooks scattered on some of them, but no walls, no whiteboard, no lights and seemingly no electricity.
The bathrooms are portable toilets outside the building.
What decent government wouldn't condemn such a building meant for children?
But it appears that there was never any intent to build a real school. It was all a sham meant to provide good fodder for the anti-Israel crowd when Israel brings in the bulldozers to demolish it, probably early next year.
One way we know this is from the stories that say who sponsored the school to begin with.
It was erected in coordination with the Palestinian Ministry of Education, a European NGO, and...."the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission."
That doesn't sound like an education organization. And it isn't.
It was established by the Palestinian Authority to pressure international organizations to condemn Israel for its settlement activities.
All of this is playacting, and everyone knows it - Israel, the Palestinians and the European funders for these structures, and the media which reports on these stories straight as if there is nothing amiss in the constant building of structures in Area C for communities that never existed a few years ago.
Here is Ein Samiya in 2021 and in 2014, according to Google Earth.
It is a shame that no media bothers actually reporting the truth.
