DaysofPal- More than 660,000 children are currently out of school in Gaza, and of its estimated 815 schools, 97 percent have been damaged or destroyed, says UN expert Farida Shaheed.
The UN special rapporteur on the right to education described the collapse of Gaza’s education system due to Israel’s assault as a “scholasticide”, which is the intentional destruction of educational infrastructure or the targeting of teachers and academics.
Shaheed told Al Jazeera Israel’s actions were “the complete, deliberate and systematic destruction” of Gaza’s education system, and that this was a form of “intergenerational war”.
Shaheed said reinstating UNRWA, the UN agency established to support Palestinian refugees, which runs a large network of schools, could help increase access to education.
“We also need to listen to what the children and educators are saying in Palestine,” Shaheed added.
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