RAMALLAH July 16. 2024 (Saba) - The Palestinian Ministry of education and higher education announced on Tuesday that 9,241 students were martyred and 15,182 were injured since the start of the Zionist aggression on the seventh of October on the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
The ministry said in a press statement that the number of students who have been martyred in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the aggression has reached more than 9138, and those who were injured to 14671, while 103 students were martyred in the West Bank and 505 others were injured, in addition to the arrest of 357.
She pointed out that 497 teachers and administrators were martyred and 3,426 were injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and more than 357 were arrested in the West Bank.
She pointed out that 353 government schools, universities and university buildings and 65 affiliated to the relief and Works Agency for refugees (UNRWA) were bombed and vandalized in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 139 of them were severely damaged, 93 completely destroyed, 69 schools and five universities in the West Bank were raided and vandalized, and 133 government schools were used as shelter centers in the Gaza Strip.
The ministry confirmed that 620 thousand students in the Gaza Strip are still deprived of enrolling in their schools since the beginning of the aggression, and 88 thousand students are also deprived of enrolling in their universities, and the occupation deprived 39 thousand students from the Gaza strip of taking the high school exam, while most students suffer psychological trauma and face difficult health conditions.
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resource : Saba
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