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bisan-owda90.bsky.social @bisan-owda90.bsky.social
Jul 10, 01:04 AM

explains what going to school in Gaza feels like right now, and what more than two years of Israel's genocide has done to the education system there. #Gaza #Palestine #support

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"After 1948, Nakba, when a million Palestinians left their homes and villages without anything, education became the only hope to resist being cut off from their history and lives and having their future stolen. Israel, of course, sees this as a real threat. That's why Israel has been committing a scholasticide in Gaza Strip for two years and a half now by destroying 97 percent of the educational buildings, all the universities, killing 17,000 students, over 700 teachers and professors and depriving 658,000 students of three academic years in a row. Is the history repeating itself? Are the Palestinians now learning intense, even for a small amount of children? This is the most unexpected place for a school. We're now in Beit Lahya al-Mashroor, or the project of Beit Lahya, and we are very close to the yellow line. Why the yellow line? Because existence is resistance and because if these lands are empty, if the people of these lands are uneducated, these lands will be taken and no one will hear or know about it. Let's see the school. This school is called the Shamal school. About 400 to 450 students are here every day to get the only educational opportunity they can get in the whole north. I'm saying that because of the bombing around the area, there's no schools working, there's no international organizations supplying anything here. By the way, the school staff is fully volunteering in the school. When we hear the sound of bombing, we try to be relaxed, not to make our children or students feel fear and still come to school. We told them when you hear a bombing or something like that, we will feel fear. Just be near to your students and take his hand or put yourself on the earth. They told us, I want to go to my home, I need my mom. Some students start to cry. We have two years, approximately two years, the students do not go to school and we miss to teach our students, we miss to come back to the education. And the whole student spot in their mind, I want to go to filling water, I want to help my dad. The idea is that we want to change this concept. The school lost a student, her name is Sham, she was eight years old and she got shot in her way to the school because there is bombing very close to here. The school is dangerous but yet no other options for anyone here."

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bisan-owda90.bsky.social @bisan-owda90.bsky.social · Jul 8, 10:59 AM

explains what going to school in Gaza feels like right now, and what more than two years of Israel's genocide has done to the education system there. #Gaza #Palestine #support