RAMALLAH, (PIC)
The Ministry of Education and Higher Education announced that 8,672 Palestinian students have been martyred and 14,583 students injured since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip and the West Bank which started on October 7 last year.
The ministry explained in a statement on Tuesday that the number of students who have been martyred in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli aggression reached more than 8,572, and the number of the wounded students mounted to 14,089, adding that 100 students have been martyred, 494 injured, and 349 arrested in the West Bank.
The ministry indicated that about 497 teachers and administrators have been martyred and 3,402 injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with more than 109 arrested in the West Bank.
Around 353 government schools, universities, university structures, and 65 UNRWA education facilities have been bombed and vandalized in the Gaza Strip, with 139 of them severely damaged, and 93 completely destroyed while 133 government schools were used as shelter centers in the Strip, the ministry elaborated, adding that about 57 schools in the West Bank have been stormed and vandalized as well.
The ministry said that 620,000 students in the Gaza Strip are still deprived of enrolling in their schools since the beginning of the aggression, while most of the students are suffering from psychological trauma and difficult health conditions.
