Rising tides threaten tents of displaced Palestinians
“If the threat is not from the Israelis, it comes from the sea.”
These are the words of displaced Palestinians sheltering along Gaza’s coast, one of the few relatively safe areas in the besieged enclave. They are creating sand barriers to prevent rising tides from flooding their tents and destroying their homes once again.
Education Ministry says 11,000 students killed in Gaza and West Bank
The Palestinian Education Ministry has said 11,001 students were killed and 17,772 injured in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank since the start of Israel’s war on October 7.
According to the ministry’s latest estimates, 10,888 students were killed in the Strip and 17,224 injured, while in the West Bank, 113 students were killed and 548 injured in addition to 429 being arrested.
Most schools in Gaza’s Beit Hanoon destroyed, Al Jazeera’s verification unit finds
Al Jazeera’s verification unit Sanad has found that Beit Hanoon, in the northern Gaza Strip, has seen most of its UNRWA and government schools and educational facilities destroyed in Israeli bombardments.
Satellite images revealed nine schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees were completely destroyed in addition to the partial destruction of three other schools sheltering displaced Palestinians.
Sources on the ground told Sanad that about 600 displaced families are now sheltering in three remaining schools, two governmental and one UNRWA-affiliated, on the city’s outskirts.
Gaza engineer constructs system to combat energy and water crisis
Inas al-Ghoul, a Palestinian engineer, uses a solar cooker she built in response to energy shortages in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
Al-Ghoul checks a solar water desalination system she built in response to Gaza’s water crisis.
Clean water is unavailable for most living in Gaza as Israeli air strikes destroyed water infrastructure and wells.
