Gaza’s schools now cootie-free.

Via BBC:

Hamas, the Islamist group that governs the Gaza Strip, is to introduce a law banning mixed-sex schools for all children over the age of nine.

In practice, virtually all schools in the Palestinian territory are already segregated at that age.

The law appears largely to be aimed at asserting Hamas’s Islamist credentials, says the BBC’s Jon Donnison in Ramallah.

The vast majority of schools in Gaza are run by either Hamas or the UN.

All of those are already segregated after the age of nine, says our correspondent