The Ministry of Education and Higher Education said that 11,923 students were killed and 19,199 were injured since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on October 7, 2023.

The Ministry of Education stated in a statement on Tuesday that the number of students who were killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the aggression has reached more than 11,808, and those who were injured are 18,596, while in the West Bank 115 students were killed and 603 others were injured, in addition to the arrest of 450.

It pointed out that 561 teachers and administrators were martyred and 3,729 were injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and more than 148 were arrested in the West Bank.

It pointed out that 341 government schools, universities and their buildings, and 65 affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), were subjected to bombing and vandalism in the Gaza Strip, which led to 138 of them being severely damaged and 77 being completely destroyed. In addition, 84 schools and 7 universities in the West Bank were subjected to storming and vandalism.

The Ministry of Education confirmed that 788,000 students in the Gaza Strip are still deprived of attending their schools and universities since the beginning of the aggression, while most students suffer from psychological trauma and face difficult health conditions.

It pointed out that the repeated occupation raids on the Jenin and Tulkarm governorates caused terror among students in their schools.