Israel has destroyed more than 390 schools in attacks on the Gaza Strip
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Published at: 19/01/2024 01:28 PM
Since last October 7, when the aggression
of the Zionist regime of Israel against the Gaza
Strip escalated, more than 390 schools, universities and educational institutions have
been destroyed by the occupying forces in the Palestinian enclave.
In a
statement, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said
that educational centers “have been destroyed in a hundred days, the most recent
of which was the bombing of Al-Isra University and the new bombing of
the Islamic University”, acts that they described as “war crimes and criminal
conduct aimed at destroying all components of human life”.
Hamas highlighted that
Tel Aviv aims at the education system in order to destroy or damage
the national value and identity of Palestinians, while the Gaza Ministry
of Education reports that a total of 4,368 students have been
killed by Israeli attacks and around 8,000 have been injured
since last October.
The Deputy
Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF),
Edward Chaiban, described Gaza this week as “the most dangerous place in the
world to be a child. We have said that this is a war against children.”
The agency
highlighted that of the nearly 25,000 people who have died in Gaza since October,
70 percent were women and minors. “The killing of children must stop immediately,”
Chaiban said.