Coverage dated September 3, 2024 to September 8, 2024

Teachers struggle to educate Gaza's children with many schools reduced to rubble

Headline from PBS NewsHour

It’s back-to-school season, but in Gaza, 625,000 students have no building to return to. Most of Gaza’s 560 schools have been either damaged or destroyed. More than half of the schools have been directly hit by Israel and the few remaining are now shelters for the displaced.

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Reports & sources

5 articles, oldest first.

  1. Al Jazeera

    Back to school – but not for the 625,000 students of Gaza (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Al Jazeera's feed description

    A teacher in Gaza reflects on how the first day of school used to bring excitement to students, parents and teachers.

  2. Local News 8

    Gaza enters its 2nd school year without schooling. The cost could be heavy for kids' futures (opens Local News 8)

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    Local News 8's feed description

    Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — This week, when they would normally be going back to school, the Qudeh family’s children stumbled with armfuls of rubble they collected from a destroyed building to sell for use in building graves in the cemetery that is now their home in southern Gaza…

  3. PBS NewsHour

    Teachers struggle to educate Gaza's children with many schools reduced to rubble (opens PBS NewsHour)

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    PBS NewsHour's feed description

    It’s back-to-school season, but in Gaza, 625,000 students have no building to return to. Most of Gaza’s 560 schools have been either damaged or destroyed. More than half of the schools have been directly hit by Israel and the few remaining are now shelters for the displaced.

  4. Al Jazeera

    630,000 children missing education as Gaza school year begins (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Al Jazeera's feed description

    More than half a million children in Gaza are missing out on education because of Israel’s war.

  5. Truthout

    Israel Bombed 16 Schools in Gaza in Past 6 Weeks, Rights Group Says (opens Truthout)

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    Truthout's feed description

    Roughly 630,000 children in Gaza were supposed to start a new school year this week.

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