GAZA (Dispatches) – The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education said on Tuesday that 11,852 students were killed and 18,959 were injured since the beginning of the Zionist regime’s aggression on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on October 7, 2023.
The Ministry of Education said in a statement the number of students who were killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the aggression reached more than 11,738, and those who were injured 18,365, WAFA news agency reported.
Meanwhile, 114 students were killed in the West Bank and 594 others were injured.
It indicated that 560 teachers and administrators were killed and 3,729 were injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and more than 148 were detained in the West Bank.
The Ministry pointed out that 362 government schools, universities and their buildings, and 65 affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), were bombed and vandalized in the Gaza Strip.
It further confirmed that 718,000 students in the Gaza Strip are still deprived of attending their schools and universities since the beginning of the aggression, while most students suffer from psychological trauma and face difficult health conditions.
On October 19, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated that “One million children in the Gaza Strip are living in hell on earth, with about 40 children killed there every day, over the past year”.
Israel has continued its brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip since last October 7, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.
The regime has systematically targeted civilian facilities including schools, hospitals and places of worship amid its ongoing onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
Under the rules of war, targeting such civilian facilities can constitute a war crime.
More than 43,000 people have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 101,000 others injured, according to local health authorities.
The Zionist regime’s onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the territory amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine.