UNRWA: More than 625,000 students have missed more than eight months of education

The United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA) says that more than 625,000 children in Gaza have not gone to school for more than eight months.

This organization wrote on X social network: 300,000 students were in UNRWA schools before the war. Play and learning activities provided by UNRWA teams are crucial to prepare children to return to school and restore their right to education.

Earlier, the spokesperson of the Gaza Ministry of Education announced that 625 thousand students in Gaza have lost the ability to continue their studies since the beginning of the attacks of the Zionist military on October 7. This amount is equivalent to all students who went to school before the war. 

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories recently said that Israeli attacks on schools and universities in the Gaza Strip are “systematic”.

The UN Office previously reported that about 92 percent of all school buildings in Gaza are being used as shelters for displaced people, and about 392 schools (79 percent of all school buildings in Gaza) have been damaged, including 141 schools that severely damaged or completely destroyed.

Translator: Azam Purkand