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Israel killed 10,000 Palestinian students, 500 teachers since October

Wednesday, 07 August 2024 1:57 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 07 August 2024 1:57 AM ]

Palestinians check a UN school sheltering displaced people which was damaged during Israeli bombardment in Khan Yunis on June 21, 2024, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Photo by AFP)

The Palestinian Ministry of Education says over 10,000 students in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank have been killed by Israel since the beginning of the regime’s genocidal war in Gaza last October.

The Palestinian ministry said on Tuesday another 16,000 students have been injured since then.

According to the ministry, over 500 teachers and administrators were also killed, and 3,000 others were injured.

The ministry said during the time, 62 schools were destroyed in the Gaza Strip and another 119 were severely damaged.

More than 107 scientists, university professors, and researchers were also killed.

Even schools affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were not spared the Israeli attacks.

Over 6,000 students have been deprived of attending their schools in Gaza, with many of them suffering psychological trauma.

The Government Media Office in Gaza said that Israel has killed at least 16,000 children in the besieged territory since October. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under the rubble.

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s targeting of schools sheltering internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip, describing the "policy" as a continuation of the occupying entity’s “Nazi-like genocide.”

“The occupying regime’s goals behind these massacres, of terrorism, intimidation, and displacement, will be shattered by the steadfastness of this brave people and their resistance,” Hamas said in a statement on Monday.

An Israeli airstrike hit two schools in Gaza City on Sunday, killing at least 30 people, Palestinian officials said.

Footage circulated on Palestinian media outlets showed bodies scattered inside the yard of one of the two schools as residents rushed to carry casualties, including children, and loaded them into ambulance vehicles that took them to at least two nearby hospitals.

Gaza school massacre: Israel hits two more schools, killing 30 Palestinians

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Israel’s war on Gaza, which has been raging for more than ten months, has destroyed large swaths of the besieged territory. Israeli occupation forces have, particularly targeted schools, colleges, universities and hospitals.

Nearly 40,000 people have been killed, the great majority of them women and children. Thousands more are missing or presumed to be dead under the rubble.

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