‘Education in Gaza a casualty’ of Israel’s war on Palestinian territory: UNRWA
After 18 months of Israel’s war on Gaza, the territory’s children have been left “displaced, traumatised and deprived of education”, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said.
According to data from a cluster of organisations working on education in humanitarian crises, 70 percent of schools in Gaza have been hit directly by attacks.
Nearly 90 percent of schools in Gaza need significant rehabilitation or reconstruction. And among the schools in need of repair or rebuilding are 162 UNRWA-operated schools in Gaza, which once provided education to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children, the organisation said.
A UNRWA-run school destroyed during Israel’s military offensive lies in ruins in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 14
Rights group says Israeli attacks on hospitals eliminating ‘means of survival’
Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq says that Israel’s attack on the al-Ahli Arab Hospital on Sunday is part of a “pattern of genocidal attacks on health facilities, vehicles, equipment and staff”.
“This latest attack on a medical facility follows the demolition of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, the last cancer treatment centre in Gaza, on 20 March 2025,” Al-Haq said in a post on X.
“Less than half of Gaza’s hospitals are still partially functional, struggling to deliver care in damaged buildings and facing severe shortages of medical supplies due to Israel’s total blockade,” Al-Haq added.
“Not only is there no safe place in Gaza, but Israel… has also eliminated the means of survival for Palestinians facing daily aerial bombardment, ground attacks, starvation, disease, and exhaustion,” it added.
Israel hits field hospital in Gaza’s al-Mawasi, kills medic
At least one person has been killed and nine wounded in an Israeli air attack on the northern gate of the Kuwaiti Field Hospital, in the al-Mawasi area near southern Gaza’s Khan Younis city, according to the hospital.
The killed man was a medic, and other casualties were all patients and medics, spokesman Saber Mohammed said.
Field hospital attack shows Israel’s ‘deliberate intent’ to destroy heathcare in Gaza: Ministry
Gaza’s Health Ministry has condemned the Israeli air attack on the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza’s Khan Younis governorate, which killed at least one medic and injured nine people.
“The targeting confirms the occupation’s deliberate intent to inflict greater damage to the health care system and threaten the treatment of the wounded and sick, even in hospital beds,” the ministry said in a statement published on Telegram.
“The occupation’s crimes against medical facilities will not cease as long as there is no firm stance from international and humanitarian institutions. The Ministry of Health reiterates its appeal to all international and concerned parties to provide protection for hospitals and medical personnel,” it added.
