RAMALLAH (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education said that more than 15,000 children, the majority of whom are school and kindergarten students, in addition to 64 students from the West Bank and Jerusalem schools have been martyred since the beginning of the Israeli occupation’s aggression on the Gaza Strip.
The Ministry added, in a statement on Tuesday, marking the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, which falls on June the fourth, that Gaza’s children have become the theme of this year event as they represent the higher percentage of the victims of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October.
The Ministry stated that 620,000 students have been denied their right to schooling, and 88,000 students deprived of attending university classes since the beginning of the aggression on the Strip, adding that most of them suffer from psychological trauma and difficult health conditions.
The Ministry urged international organizations, bodies, and institutions defending children and the right to education, to halt the escalating violations and heinous crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) against children, students, and educational and academic staff in all governorates.
It also called for urgent and immediate intervention to stop the genocide war on Gaza as well as the repetitive escalating attacks and offensives of the IOF and settlers in the West Bank.
