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“What is the fault of our children that their future is being ruined and they do not learn?” With these words, mother Nidaa Abu Rabie expressed her grief over the future of her four children after the Israeli war prevented students in the Gaza Strip from starting the new school year.

Mother Nidaa was forced to move with her children from her home in the city of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, to a school in Deir al-Balah in the middle of the Strip. She told Al-Quds.com: “I live as a displaced person in the school that was supposed to receive our children to study and learn inside it.”

She added: "We never expected that the school would be a place of shelter for us, not to educate children."

A second year and Gaza students are out of school. Nidaa recalls: “I used to prepare stationery and clothes for my children at this time every year, but now the situation has changed a lot.”

She says with regret and sorrow: "This is the second year that my children have lost."

Nada tries in every way to educate her children so that they do not forget their studies. She continues: “My children excel at school. Now I ask them questions and they do not know anything. They tell me, ‘Mom, we forgot about studying.’”

She continued: "When I tell them, 'Let's start studying,' they refuse and tell me, 'When the war ends, we will go back to studying.'"

The four children of Nidaa live in a state of fear and terror in light of the continuous Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the displacement operations that the occupation forces them to do every now and then. She says: “My children live their whole lives in fear. They refuse to go and fill water and get cold. We are afraid, Mama, that a shrapnel or a bullet will hit us and we will die.”

She wonders, her heart helpless: "Even if they return to their schools that are all destroyed, how will they study? How will I teach them?"

In the schoolyard, 13-year-old Maryam Al-Kilani was walking, carrying two gallons of water. She told Al-Quds.com: “At this time, I was standing in line at school, singing the national anthem with my classmates. We were excited and happy for the start of the school year, but now I stand for long hours in lines for water and at the water stations.” She continued with tears on her cheeks: “The teacher used to tell us that school is our second home, but now it has become our first, second and third.”

Maryam recalls with a heart full of pain: “I was so happy to go back to school that I would put my clothes next to my bed when I went to sleep, and I would wake up to the sound of the students and their joy.”

She added: "I wake up now terrified by the sound of missiles and shelling. I am very afraid and no one cares about me."

Maryam, who excelled in her studies, was competing with her classmate for first place, but what happened broke her heart and doubled her pain.

She told “I”: “My friend and I used to excel, coming in first or second place, and sometimes we would get the same score. I never imagined that she would be martyred without me seeing her.”

At the door of the classroom in the same school, the grandmother, Mahdia Abu Haloub, sits surrounded by her seven grandchildren. She tells “I” and “Al-Quds” Dot Com: “My son’s wives are trying hard to educate their children, and during that time, a bombing occurs and the child gets scared and screams, repeating in all of our faces: ‘I don’t want to study. I am dying.’”

She adds, wondering: “Our whole life is displacement from one school to another and under the fire of shelling.. So how will the child absorb education?”

The grandmother lives in great fear for the future of her grandchildren. She says: “The future of our children is unknown, and it is being lost before our eyes without us being able to do anything.”

Grandmother Mahdia, like other mothers, demands the provision of safe schools to teach children basic subjects so that they do not lose another year of education.

In turn, geography teacher Muhammad Hamouda told Al-Quds.com: “Within the school, we have created, through personal efforts, a center for teaching children from elementary to high school.”

He continues: “At the center, we focus on teaching students basic subjects such as Arabic and English.”

Teacher Hamouda pointed out that students’ attendance starts from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., adding: “Every day is a phase. For example, today is primary school, followed by middle school, and so on throughout the week.”

He stressed that there is a great turnout from students and families, as the number of students inside the center ranges between 80-90 male and female students.

According to the Ministry of Education, the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has deprived more than 630,000 students of their right to education, while more than 10,000 of them have been killed since October 7 of last year.