GAZA: At least 9,241 students were killed and 15,182 were injured in the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank since Oct 7 last year.
Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that the Education and High Education Ministry said 9,138 students were killed and 14,671 were injured in the Gaza Strip, while in the West Bank, 103 students were killed and 505 were injured.
The ministry said 357 students have been detained in the West Bank.
It indicated that 497 teachers and administrators were killed and 3,426 were injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
WAFA reported 353 government schools, universities, university buildings, and 65 buildings belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) were bombed and vandalised in the Gaza Strip, which led to 139 of them being severely damaged, and 93 completely destroyed.
In the West Bank, 69 schools and five universities were stormed and vandalised.
It added that 133 government schools were used as shelters in the Gaza Strip.
The ministry affirmed that 620,000 students in the Gaza Strip are deprived of enrolling in their schools since the beginning of the aggression, and 88,000 students are deprived of enrolling in their universities.
The occupation also deprived 39,000 students from the Gaza Strip of taking their high school examinations. – BERNAMA-WAFA
