“Gaza time stamp”; One is a martyr and the other is injured

Mehr News, International Group: October and the arrival of autumn for hundreds of millions of students in the world is the beginning of another season of life, knowledge and learning. But the children of Gaza are an exception to this rule. While we are gradually approaching the first anniversary of the Al-Aqsa storm operation and the unprecedented genocide of the Zionist regime, statistics indicate that 11,000 Palestinian students have been martyred and 18,000 of them are injured. why This is because the Palestinian fighters broke the security hegemony of Zionism, and Tel Aviv is dropping bombs and rockets on women and children in an ugly revenge. This sad statistic and the martyrdom of so many students, as the most important part of the spiritual capital and human resources of the future of Palestine, speaks of the terrible dimensions of a great tragedy for the oppressed Palestinian nation and an unprecedented crime in the history of the Zionist regime.

More than 600,000 students and nearly 90,000 students in Gaza have faced disruption in their education for the second year in a row. In addition to the testimony of Palestinian students, which is a clear example of the current and future threats to Palestine, it should also be noted that among the 18,000 injured students, more than 900 of them have suffered amputations and are living in difficult conditions. /p>

Statistics show that only 10% of all 564 schools in Gaza remain standing and all 12 universities in Gaza have been razed to the ground. Although the number of martyred students alone is a huge sign of a historical tragedy for the Palestinians, in addition to them, the number of martyred teachers has also exceeded the number of 525 people.

The most recent example of the army’s crimes under Netanyahu’s command was the bombing of El Zeitoun Elementary School in the south of Gaza City, which resulted in the martyrdom of 22 people, including 13 children and 6 women. The Islamic resistance movement “Hamas” considered this act of the Zionists a war crime, which, as before, was done with the support of the United States. Attacking schools and killing children who have to attend classes is a clear violation of all human values ​​and international laws and insists on the continuation of genocide. In its statement, Hamas asked the Arab nations, Islamic countries and all the free people of the world to unite and stand against the criminal enemy by any means so that his crimes stop.

According to the information published by the European Mediterranean Human Rights Watch (Euro-Med), Israeli planes bombarded the school in the neighborhood of Al-Zaytoun, where students and mothers They were sheltered there and had nowhere to stay. Euro-Med announced that several members of the Human Rights Watch group visited the said school and found that there were no signs of military use there and that it was merely a shelter for women and children. Therefore, the claim of turning the school into a Hamas command complex was just an excuse to justify the crime.

So far, the Zionist army has repeatedly bombed dozens of schools under the pretext of the presence of Hamas fighters, and in the face of the protests of civil and human rights organizations, they have not been able to provide any documents to prove their claims. to present about the military use of these schools. However, none of the supporters of the Zionist regime, including the members of the European Union, who always emphasize the need to pay attention to children’s rights, have been willing to condemn the aforementioned actions as a war crime.

Human rights activists have asked the International Court of Justice to take urgent action in order to restrain Israel and prevent its infanticide and genocide, but still nothing has happened. And it is safe to say that this month has become the most bitter and sad month in the history of Gaza schools.

When UNRWA is not safe either

Another dark dimension of the Zionist regime’s crimes and war crimes is that even the employees, teachers and relief and educational officials of the “Palestinian Refugee Relief and Employment Agency” (UNRWA) ) are not safe and their centers, cars and shelters have been attacked many times. According to official statistics, since October 7, more than 215 employees and aid workers of this agency have been martyred.

Oppressed Palestinian women and children took refuge there many times in the hope that the UNRWA schools and centers would be safe during the massive attacks on different areas of Gaza. . But widespread attacks also included these centers. Recently Sam Rose, the director of UNRWA planning, announced that his colleagues do not feel safe even in the centers and schools of the Nusirat camp, and many of them have come to the conclusion that they should not use the special uniforms of this agency because the Zionists are targeting them from afar. give This official of UNRWA has expressed his concern about the recent events, while in recent days, Al-Jaouni school for displaced students of Nusirat camp was targeted by aerial bombardment and during this attack 18 Palestinian civilians were martyred.

Why do they bomb schools?

The events of the last year have shown that the Zionist army, in its combat approach, does not follow any kind of moral and legal rules and principles, and especially in attacking Civilians have pushed the boundaries of violence. Tel Aviv thinks that by increasing the number of martyrs and shedding the blood of women and children, it will break the strength of the resistance and create heavy psychological effects and causes the Palestinians themselves to ask the Hamas fighters to lay down their arms and end the resistance. give But this is only a part of the scenario of the Zionist regime, and there are other goals when it comes to attacking schools and killing students and teachers.

It is important to note that the attack on schools and the killing of students is not a new act in the history of Israeli crimes and has already been on the agenda as a strategic action. The army of the Zionist regime has been placed. The historical example of this action is from December 2008 to January 2009, during which the Zionist regime deliberately and purposefully attacked schools and educational centers in Gaza. The purpose of the bombing of schools was to destroy and systematically destroy the education system in Gaza so that the students of Gaza stay away from studying because the Israeli commanders knew that schools and mosques are always two important foci for cultivating and propagating the ideas of resistance and educating students and students. It has been the basis of defending the cause of Palestine.

Attacks on schools and the killing of students, students, teachers and professors and the destruction of schools and universities have been put on Israel’s agenda as a strategy in a situation where the high-level documents of the rights between The humanitarian world gives a special place to education. According to Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, education is everyone’s right. The right to education must be protected not only in peacetime, but also in wartime, and attacking schools and educational centers is one of the biggest war crimes. After all, as clear examples of “civilian” people, students are protected by the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the parties involved do not have the right to impose collective punishment against them.