RAMALLAH: The Ministry of Education said that 5,260 Palestinian students were killed and 8,985 others were injured since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on October 7 in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The Ministry said in a statement, that the number of students who were killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the aggression reached to 5,213, and those who were injured reached 8,691, while in the West Bank, 47 students were killed and 294 others were injured, in addition to 94 arrests.
It indicated that 251 teachers and schoolheads were killed and 846 others were injured in the Gaza Strip, while six were injured, and more than 73 were detained in the West Bank.
Further, the ministry said that 286 public schools and 65 affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) were bombed and vandalized in the Gaza Strip, which led to 111 of them being severely damaged and 40 completely destroyed.
57 schools in the West Bank were stormed and vandalized, and 133 govern
ment schools were used, the ministry explained.
The Ministry confirmed that 620,000 students in the Gaza Strip are still deprived of enrolling in their schools since the beginning of the aggression, while most of the students suffer from psychological trauma and face difficult health conditions.
Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA
