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Gaza university resumes in-person classes
The Islamic University of Gaza has begun the first steps towards a gradual return to in-person learning, inside buildings damaged by Israeli air raids and partly reduced to rubble.
Within partially restored, cracked walls, hundreds of students returned to classrooms in a scene that reflects the determination of Gaza to reclaim life and education despite the scars of war.
Parts of the university’s buildings also shelter hundreds of displaced families, whose homes were destroyed during the genocide and who have no alternative refuge, prompting the school’s administration to appeal to relevant authorities to find urgent solutions and provide them with alternative housing.
According to the Gaza Government Media Office, the Israeli genocide destroyed 165 schools, universities and educational institutions, while 392 sustained partial damage, crippling Gaza’s education sector.
Displaced Palestinian Mervat al-Bassiouny, whose leg was amputated due to an Israeli attack, views the damage while using crutches as she shelters inside a building at the Islamic University of Gaza, from where she graduated and which was hit in previous Israeli raids, in Gaza City
In Gaza, ‘a lot of mothers grieve while giving birth’
An obstetrician and gynaecologist who has delivered hundreds of babies in Gaza during the war says expectant mothers there endure conditions unlike any she has witnessed elsewhere.
Dr Asil Jallad, who has twice volunteered in Gaza and seen thousands of patients, said pregnant women faced huge barriers to accessing care.
“Women have to commute for hours to get to the most basic of care, to come see a doctor somewhere in a field hospital or in another city,” she told Al Jazeera from Amman.
“In the usual situation, this commute would take 10 to 15 minutes. During the war, it’s taking two to three hours… knowing that even when she reaches a clinic or a doctor, she won’t be able to get what she needs as a patient because of the lack of resources.”
She said giving birth was “supposed to be a beautiful experience”, but “in Gaza, it’s different.
“A lot of mothers grieve while giving birth,” she said. “They grieve for their lost children, they grieve for their displaced ones.”
Almost 4,000 glaucoma patients at risk of blindness due to lack of medicine
Nearly 4,000 glaucoma patients in Gaza are at risk of losing their sight due to a lack of treatment options and a limited number of surgical procedures in the territory, the Health Ministry says.
Damage to diagnostic and surgical equipment had made operations more challenging and increased wait times for procedures, it said. Medication stocks for eye patients were “very limited” and insufficient to meet emergency needs.
The ministry called on “all relevant authorities to intervene urgently” to bring diagnostic equipment and specialised eye medicine into the territory.
