Schools ‘guilty’ of allowing boys and girls to study in same classroom | Washington Free Beacon

Schools ‘guilty’ of allowing boys and girls to study in same classroom | Washington Free Beacon

The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip is threatening to shutter five Christian schools for allowing boys and girls to study in the same classroom, according to reports.
Christian leaders in the Gaza Strip blew the whistle on Hamas’ threats earlier this week after the ruling terror group signaled that it would enact a ban on mixed-gender classrooms.
This would force the closure of at least two Catholic and three other Christian schools in Gaza, the director general of Latin Patriarchate Schools in Palestine and Israel told the Catholic News Service (CNS) on Wednesday.
“It is a concern that in education things are getting more conservative,” director general Father Faysal Hijazin told CNS, referring to Hamas’s ongoing attempts to turn the Gaza Strip into an extremist Islamic enclave. “It reflects the whole society. This is of concern to both Christians and moderate Muslims. It is not easy to be there.”
Hijazin said that Hamas’ move to enact the gender ban would force the economically constrained school to close