3,271 martyrs in the Palestinian education sector since the beginning of the occupation’s aggression against Gaza

Occupied Al-Quds, (ST) – The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics announced that 3,271 students, teachers, and workers in the education sector were martyred in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, since the Israeli occupation began its aggression against the Strip on October 7th.

The Central Bureau stated that the number of martyred students reached 3,141, 3,117 in the Gaza Strip and 24 in the West Bank, while the number of wounded students reached 4,863, 4,613 in Gaza and 250 in the West Bank.The  occupation forces arrested 67 students in the West Bank, while 130 teachers and administrators were killed and 403 wounded in the Gaza Strip, while the occupation arrested more than 40 teachers and administrators in schools in the West Bank.

The Bureau indicated that the occupation’s attacks on schools in the Gaza Strip resulted in the complete destruction of 63 schools while 190 were damaged, in addition to the attacks on 27 schools in the West Bank. The aggression against the Gaza Strip caused the educational process to stop in it, depriving about 608 thousand students of their right of education.

215 schools, including 145 belonging to UNRWA, were converted into shelter centers for displaced people in the Gaza Strip, explaining that working hours in West Bank schools were not as usual, due to the incursions of the occupation forces, and their obstruction of the access of about 1,750 male and female teachers to their schools daily.

As for university students, the Central Bureau stated that 446 students were martyred, 438 in the Gaza Strip and 8 in the West Bank, while 14 of those working in higher education institutions in the Strip were promoted as a result of the occupation’s aggression, and 12 higher education institutions in Gaza were partially or completely damaged. Two  institutions were damaged in the West Bank, which led to a complete cessation of university education in the Gaza Strip, and a shift to distance education in some institutions in the West Bank.

Raghda Sawas