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More than 70 per cent of schools in the Gaza Strip have been directly hit by Israeli attacks since October 2023, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, (UNRWA), said on Monday.
“About 88 per cent of schools in Gaza require reconstruction or major rehabilitation,” the UN agency said in a statement, Anadolu Agency reports.
“This includes 162 UNRWA schools that once served hundreds of thousands of boys and girls.”
The refugee agency lamented that the Israeli war on Gaza has displaced, traumatised and deprived Palestinian children of education.
Education in Gaza is a casualty of war
it added.
The Israeli army renewed a deadly assault on Gaza on 18 March, shattering a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that took hold in January.
Nearly 51,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza in a brutal Israeli onslaught since October 2023.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants in November for Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
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