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“Where will we receive our education, in the tent, in prison, or after death?” With this question, the eleventh grade student, Aseel Abu Rujaila, expressed with sadness and pain the inability of her and her siblings to continue their education and their academic year in Gaza, which has been exposed for about 6 months to a fierce war waged by the Israeli army, which did not exclude schools and educational institutions.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced that all of its schools in the Gaza Strip had been closed due to the war, depriving 300,000 children of education.

She said that more than 625,000 students have been deprived of education since the start of the war on Gaza, while 22,000 teachers have lost their jobs in the education sector.

Teacher Abeer Mustafa said that the war cast a shadow on all the students, and they did not receive their education because of the brutal war on Gaza.

She continued, "I am an English language teacher for Tawjihi students. They only studied for one month this year before the war, and they are currently living in displacement camps between killing, fear, and hunger, and they are not thinking about studying either."

Abeer added that she was angry because she was a mother and had children who were deprived of completing their studies. She said, "I have a daughter who is supposed to graduate this year from the Islamic University with distinction, but she was deprived of this joy."

As for the high school student, Ibtisam Mahani, she expressed her great dissatisfaction with the fact that she was not able to study high school this year and achieve her dream of entering university and studying journalism and media.

The displaced are wondering about the fate of their children in completing their studies, as they have lost an entire academic year that they do not know how they will make up for it.

The Ministry of Education announced the death of more than 4,851 students and 239 educational employees in the Gaza Strip, and more than 8,227 students and 836 teachers were injured since the seventh of last October.

Source: Al Jazeera