The media office in the Ministry of Education and Higher Education denied "the fabricated news circulating on social media, which talks about a decision by the Minister of Education to expel Palestinian students from public schools in Sidon." The office urged citizens to "follow news that is directly issued by the minister and the educational administration, or by the ministry’s media office, and therefore not to publish or circulate news without verifying its sources, and promised to pursue publishers of false and misleading news before the competent judiciary."