Last updated on January 23rd, 2025 at 11:52 am
Israel keeps bombing schools.
An Israeli attack on a school for orphans in Gaza City on Wednesday killed several people, mostly children and women, sheltering there after being displaced by previous Israeli strikes.
Late last month, an Israeli attack on a school filled with thousands of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza killed at least 15 people.
Days earlier, an attack on another school-turned-shelter in Gaza City killed 22 people, mostly women and children, who had sought refuge there. Israeli forces have repeatedly attacked schools, alleging that Hamas uses them as “command centers.” Hamas denies the charges.
Israel is committing “scholasticide,” the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Palestinian education system in Gaza, according to a recent report by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, a Palestinian advocacy group. Gaza has become the most dangerous place in the world to be a child, according to UNICEF. Over the course of the last year, Israeli attacks have killed or wounded tens of thousands of schoolchildren, university students, and teachers, and Israel has repeatedly bombed schools serving as supposed safe zones for people forced from their homes.
The war in Gaza will set children’s education back by up to five years and risks creating a lost generation of permanently traumatized Palestinian youth, according to another new report from researchers at the University of Cambridge, the Centre for Lebanese Studies, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA.
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