The Ministry of Education and Higher Education said that 12,799 students were killed and 20,942 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 12,681, and those who were injured are 20,311, while in the West Bank 118 students were martyred and 631 others were injured, in addition to 538 arrested.

It pointed out that 598 teachers and administrators were killed and 3,801 were injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and more than 158 were arrested in the West Bank.

It pointed out that 425 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 171 of them being severely damaged and 77 being completely destroyed. In addition, 109 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.