The Ministry of Education said that 4,296 students were martyred and 8,059 were injured since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7 on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Education explained in a statement, today, Tuesday, that the number of students who were killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the aggression reached more than 4,257 killed and 7,777 wounded, while in the West Bank, 39 students were killed and 282 others were injured, in addition to 85 arrests.

It indicated that 227 teachers and administrators were killed and 756 were injured in the Gaza Strip, five were injured, and more than 71 were arrested in the West Bank.

It pointed out that 281 government schools and 65 affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) were bombed and vandalized in the Gaza Strip, which led to 83 of them being severely damaged and 7 completely destroyed, and 38 schools in the West Bank were stormed and vandalized.

The Ministry of Education confirmed that the Israeli targeting of schools affected 90% of government school and education buildings, which were subjected to direct and indirect damage, in addition to 29% of school buildings that could not be operated because they were subjected to total demolition or severe damage, and that 133 government schools were used as shelter centers in the Gaza Strip.