As students in many parts of the world return to school after the summer, the head of UNRWA, the main United Nations agency in Gaza, has said Palestinian children in the strip are being “deprived” of an education.
He warned that “the longer children stay out of school, the higher the risk of a lost generation, fueling resentment and extremism.”
Roughly 300,000 children in Gaza were being educated in UNRWA facilities before the war broke out, he said. Since then, Israel’s military campaign has destroyed or damaged more than 70% of UNRWA’s school buildings, Lazzarini added
The schools that remain have turned into “overcrowded shelters with hundreds of thousands of displaced families,” he said.
