No school year in Gaza: a second blank year in a row, because of the war. More than 625,000 school-age children are deprived of school, 86% of schools have been destroyed or transformed into reception centers for displaced people, according to UNICEF. Report.
With our correspondents in Jerusalem and Gaza, Sami Boukhelifa and Rami Al Meghari
Since this summer, UNRWA, the agency ofHIM for Palestinian refugees, tries to provide at least one hour of lessons a day. But not all children benefit from it, due to lack of resources. Yazen is ten years old. His dream: to become an English teacher: ” I would like to live like all the other children in the world. I would like to have a real school to learn. I would like to be able to eat as much as I want. And to be able to just sit on a chair at school. Here, we sit on the floor during class… and then I would also like to learn English ».
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