The Ministry of Education and Higher Education in the Gaza Strip announced that it has completed preparing emergency plans for the opening of the new academic year 2024/2025.

The Ministry of Education called, in a statement issued today, Wednesday, a copy of which was received by the Palestinian Media Center, on educational and school administrations, educational staff, local authorities, emergency committees, and parents’ councils to form protection networks for the remaining educational capabilities; and to preserve them, to invest in them and benefit from them when the educational process resumes.

The Ministry called on all relevant bodies, supporting entities and partner institutions to provide urgent and necessary support to relieve the education sector; remove rubble from school buildings; and dangerous objects; restore damaged buildings; establish temporary classrooms; and restore basic services to school buildings; in preparation for the resumption of studies.

According to the Ministry of Education, there are preliminary statistics on the martyrs and missing persons, revealing the deaths of more than 15,000 school-age children and more than 800 workers in the public education sector, in more than 30 schools.

These statistics indicate that the Israeli aggression has resulted in the injury of more than 50,000 male and female students, and the death of more than 150 scientists, academics, and workers in higher education institutions.

It showed that (95%) of school and educational buildings were damaged, in addition to (85%) of them being out of service as a result of their total or partial destruction, and the destruction of more than 140 administrative and academic facilities, including their devices, equipment, laboratories, clinics and libraries.

The Ministry called on all media agencies, institutions, and institutions concerned with childhood and human rights to document and expose the occupation’s crimes against children and deprive them of their right to education, and to prosecute this criminal occupier before the competent international bodies and courts.