Official: Gaza school year to begin on Saturday

Students preparing for the high school entrance exam are studying at Muscat High School, part of which was damaged in Israeli attacks, as education started again after the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where education was suspended about a year and a half ago due to Israeli attacks in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp of the Deir al-Balah, Gaza on February 19, 2025. [Doaa Albaz – Anadolu Agency]

The school year in the besieged Gaza Strip will begin tomorrow, following 16 months of cessation due to Israel’s genocidal war, a Palestinian official has said.

Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Gaza, Khaled Abu- Nada, said his ministry has been holding meetings with general directors, members of the emergency committee, education directors and school principals since the start of the ceasefire to expedite the assessment of damages in the public education sector with the aim of developing a plan to resume school year tomorrow.

Abu-Nada added that the ministry and directorates have been restoring and cleaning schools, removing rubble, and trying to provide school desks for the students.

He called on citizens to return school furniture they had to use during the war.

He pointed out that the ministry’s teams in Gaza and Ramallah are also working around the clock to hold the high school exam sessions, scheduled in early March.

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