Gaza students return to makeshift schools after three years of genocide

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Around 500,000 Gaza students returned to makeshift classrooms in tents and shelters on Sunday for the first time since the 2023 conflict began, with many schools damaged or destroyed. The Ministry of Education, working with UN agencies, has established limited educational points, but challenges remain with high prices for supplies and a rotational system for attendance.

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Submitted by Nada Nabil on Wed, 09/23/2026 - 08:00 Hundreds of thousands of children attend classes in tents as destroyed schools, overcrowding and shortages continue to disrupt education across the strip Palestinian children walk to school amid the rubble of destroyed buildings as the academic year begins, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on 19 September 2026 (Bashar Taleb/AFP) Off After three years of Israeli genocide deprived him of a formal education, 13-year-old Akram Helles is fin

Gaza students return to makeshift schools after three years of genocide

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