3000 Students in Gaza will not return to their homes or schools

Occupied Al-Quds, (ST) – The children in the besieged Gaza Strip will not return to their schools and homes, because schools have been destroyed or turned into shelter centers, and homes have become rubble, and students are among the martyrs, wounded, and displaced, as a result of the continued Israeli aggression on the Strip for the 33rd day which deprived them of their right to life, education and enjoyment of their childhood.

More than 600 thousand students in the first stages of education in the Gaza Strip, and 88 thousand in the university level, cannot go to their schools and universities and pursue their basic right to education, as a result of the occupation bombing everything, which has resulted in the complete destruction of 60 schools, and the damage of 177 others since the beginning of the Israeli aggression against Gaza Strip 33 days ago.

The occupation deprived about 3,000 students of their right to life and not just education. In addition, 120 teachers and about 400 university students were martyred in its massacres, the numbers of whose victims increase and change every minute, in the light of the continued aggression, and the bodies of new martyrs being recovered from under the rubble.

The occupation’s bombing of schools is part of its war, which did not exclude any of the components of life in Gaza Strip, and its focus on destroying schools and universities aims to strike the foundations of education, and to make the Palestinian generation ignorant of its cause and legitimate rights.

The occupation deliberately bombed schools and universities and leveled them to the ground in a blatant violation of international law, the Geneva Conventions and human rights. This matter happened amid the indifference of the world that looks at the victims of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, as mere headlines for news bulletins, in a way that does not carry any feelings, and does not reflect the true scale of the tragedy.

The martyrs of Palestine are not just numbers, rather, they are lives, dreams and experiences. They are fathers, mothers, daughters-in-law, grandfathers and grandmothers, students, paramedics, journalists, artists and children, who want to live in safety like other peoples of the world.

Raghda Sawas