GAZA, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), The Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Gaza issued a comprehensive diagnostic report reviewing the educational status in the Gaza Strip for the years (2023-2026), representing a reference and methodological document through which the ministry monitored the deep transformations and educational collapses that affected the educational environment with its human, institutional, and material structure as a result of the ongoing Israeli war of genocide.
The report based its scientific material on the methodology of statistical monitoring and field follow-up, while placing at the same time a clear scientific framework for transitioning from emergency interventions to the phase of sustainable recovery and reconstruction.
The outcomes of the report and its analyses were distributed across three main axes, the first axis focused on the statistical and documentary aspect by diagnosing the educational collapse, monitoring the martyrs and wounded among students and educational staff, and the scale of destruction of the infrastructure of schools and administrative facilities, in addition to measuring the accumulated educational loss and the decline of supporting services.
While the second axis documented the field response mechanisms and emergency educational alternatives led by the ministry to maintain the minimum level of education, and reviewed the effectiveness of interventions such as establishing field schools and education tents in areas of displacement, and launching educational packages to compensate students for educational skills.
The report concluded its third axis by laying out a roadmap and a strategy for organized recovery built on standards of flexibility and sustainability, with the aim of rebuilding the educational system on foundations that are more just and capable of resilience in the face of crises. This roadmap aims at a gradual transition from the logic of temporary relief to stable education, and developing the institutional structure to absorb all students.
The ministry confirmed that this report, which comes after the passing of 1,000 days of the war of genocide in Gaza, represents a planning and scientific tool directed to the world and to international and local partners to cooperate and support the education sector and draw clear policies that guarantee the resumption of education in the Gaza Strip according to solid educational foundations.
