Gaza genocide: Over 15,000 schoolchildren killed, went missing
Gaza's Education Ministry has released a new report on the devastating impact of Israel’s genocidal war on students and educational institutions in the besieged Palestinian territory.
The Gaza ministry said on Thursday that more than 15,000 school-aged children have been killed or gone missing during the regime’s brutal offensive on Gaza.
It added that 95 percent of Gaza’s schools and educational facilities have been directly hit, with 85 percent of them being knocked completely or partially out of service.
According to the report, more than 800 education sector workers have been killed or went missing and 50,000 students have been injured.
In addition, over 140 academic and administrative facilities have been destroyed.
The ministry said Gaza’s education sector has incurred more than $3 billion in losses due to Israel’s attacks.
More than 38,000 Palestinian children have been orphaned by Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, a health ministry official said on Thursday.
Zaher al-Wahidi said that some 32,151 children lost their fathers, 4,417 lost their mothers, and 1,918 lost both parents.
“At least 13,901 women were also widowed by the war,” the official said.
“These figures reflect the extent of the pain that the people of Gaza have suffered, which requires everyone to work urgently to alleviate the suffering of orphans and affected families and rebuild their lives,” he added.
Israel’s 15-month war in Gaza displaced nearly all of its 2.3 million inhabitants, forcing many to live in meager conditions in tents as bombs rained down.
The al-Awda Hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza said Thursday that Israel carried out 520 attacks on hospitals in Gaza during the 15-month war.
More than 100 ambulance teams were targeted, 2,260 medical staff were arrested, and six workers at the hospital were killed during the Israeli military’s siege of the facility.
The health and education system in the Palestinian territory was largely destroyed by more than 15 months of Israeli campaign of death and destruction.
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