Over 11,900 Palestinian students killed in Israeli genocidal war since Oct. 7
The Ministry of Education said 11,923 Palestinian students across the occupied Gaza and West Bank have been killed and nearly 19,200 others wounded since the Israeli regime unleashed its genocidal war against the besieged strip on October 7 last year.
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The Ministry of Education added that more than 11,800 of the students killed by Israeli regime were from the besieged Gaza Strip and 115 from the occupied West Bank.
According to the Palestinian source some 18,596 of those injured were from across Gaza Strip and 603 others from the occupied West Bank.
Also, among the school staff, 561 teachers and administrators were killed and 3729 were injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and more than 148 were detained in the West Bank.
The Ministry pointed out that 341 government schools, universities and their buildings, and 65 affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were bombed and vandalized in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 138 of them being severely damaged and 77 being completely destroyed.
The Ministry of Education confirmed that 788,000 students in the Gaza Strip are still deprived of attending their schools and universities since the beginning of the aggression, while most students suffer from psychological trauma and face difficult health conditions.
It pointed out that the repeated occupation raids on the Jenin and Tulkarm governorates have caused terror among students in their schools.