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The Palestinian Ministry of Education said that 4,551 students were killed and 8,193 injured since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7 on the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
The Ministry of Education confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that the number of students who were martyred in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the aggression reached more than 4,510 martyrs and 7,911 wounded, while 41 students were martyred in the West Bank and 282 others were injured, in addition to the arrest of 85.
It pointed out that 231 teachers and administrators were killed, 756 others were injured in the Gaza Strip, 6 were injured, and more than 71 were arrested in the West Bank.
It added that 281 public schools and 65 affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) were shelled and vandalized in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 83 of them being severely damaged, 7 completely destroyed, and 38 schools in the West Bank were raided and vandalized.
The Ministry of Education pointed out that the Israeli targeting of schools affected 90 percent of school buildings and government education that were directly and indirectly damaged, in addition to 29 percent of school buildings that cannot be operated because they were subjected to total demolition or severe damage, and that 133 public schools were used as shelters in the Gaza Strip.
She said that 55 schools in the West Bank operate electronically because they are in areas of friction with the occupation army and the settlers.
(Petra)