“My Decree, My Life”: The war leaves Gaza students hungry and outside the school Israeli conflict news

Maha was designed to become one day as a journalist and a report on the events in Gaza. Now it has only one ambition that is one ambition: finding food as hunger in Palestinian hunger.

With the preparation of the war, it lives between the ruins of the Islamic University, which is one day educational institution, which, like most of the others in Gaza, has become a shelter for the displaced.

“We have been saying for a long time that we wanted to live, we want to learn, we want to travel. Now we say we want to eat,” said 26 -year -old.

Ali is part of a generation of Palestinians in Gaza – from primary school to university students – who say they were stolen from an education of about two years of Israeli air strikes that destroyed the pocket institutions.

More than 61,000 people have been killed Israel’s war on GazaAccording to the health authorities in Gaza. A large part of the pocket, which suffered from poverty and high unemployment, was demolished even before the war.

Palestinian Education Minister Amjad Barham accused Israel of carrying out a systematic destruction of schools and universities, saying that 293 out of 307 schools were fully destroyed or partial.

“With this, the occupation wants to kill hope within our sons and daughters,” he said.

The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Coordination, according to the latest assessment of satellite -based damage in July, said 97 percent of the educational facilities in Gaza at some level of damage with 91 percent that require a large rehabilitation or complete rebuilding to become a function again.

She said: “The restrictions imposed on the Israeli authorities remain in limiting the entry of educational supplies to Gaza, which undermines the scale and quality of interventions.”

These dark statistics draw a dark future for jasmine Zain, 19 years old, sitting in a tent for displacement and sorting through books that survived Israeli strikes and displacement.

She remembered how indulging her studies, printing papers, finding an office and installing it with lights.

She said: “Because of the war, everything was stopped. I mean everything I did, everything I did. In just seconds, he went.”

There is no immediate hope for relief or return to separation.

Israel is planning a new attack in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that it is expected to complete “somewhat quickly”, as the United Nations Security Council heard new demands to end the suffering in the Palestinian enclave.

Saga Adwan, 19, a student honored at the Al -Azhar Institute, who lives in a school, has a refuge with her nine family, how she was exposed to the building she once learned.

The books and study materials disappeared. To keep her mind job, notes on the small educational papers she left.

“All my memories were there – my ambitions and goals. I was fulfilling a dream there. It was a life for me. When I used to go to the institute, I felt psychological comfort.”

“My studies were there; my life, my future, where I was graduating.”