Several people, including children, have been killed and many more injured in northern Gaza today after a car exploded at a military parade organized by the Islamic resistance group Hamas to celebrate the Israeli withdrawl from the Gaza strip.

The discussion focuses on the effects of the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian and Israeli educational systems, and how local and international educational strategies can be effective in working to end the occupation. Palestinian, Israeli and International educators, discuss ways in which pedagogy can be an essential tool in working towards liberation, human rights, and democracy building or a means for subjugation and oppression.

Essa Qraq', the head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), disclosed that more than half a million of the Palestinians inside the Israeli jails and 180 were fallen victim since 1967 . Thousands of the children and administrative detainees were arrested and concentration camps were set up even does not suit the animals.

Deheishe is one of the five largest refugee camps of the West Bank, but is still rather small having ? according to UNRWA - less than 12,000 registered refugees. It is similar in size to a small Israeli town. I didn't quite know what to expect when I left Jerusalem. Those foreigners ? like me - who expect refugee camps to be large fields with many crowded tents would be surprised.