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Gaza children return to school

By Associated Press in Gaza | China Daily | Updated: 2014-09-15 07:01

Opening delayed for 2 weeks after buildings bombed during conflict

About 500,000 Gaza children made a delayed return to school on Sunday after a devastating 50-day conflict with Israel that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and damaged hundreds of school buildings.

Gaza Education Ministry official Ziad Thabet said the opening is for 230,000 first - through 12th-graders attending public schools - 200,000 going to United Nations-run schools, and the rest who enrolled in private institutions.

 Gaza children return to school

Palestinian students play in the courtyard of a United Nations school in Gaza on Sunday on the first day of the new school year. Mohammed Abed / Agence France-Presse

Gaza children return to school

The opening was delayed for two weeks because of damage to schools and the diversion of UN school buildings for use as temporary centers to house tens of thousands of displaced people. About 50,000 people are still being housed in the UN schools, the UN Palestinian refugee agency said.

Early on Sunday, Gaza City streets were crowded with children dressed in a broad array of school uniforms, many accompanied by parents or older siblings.

In the Al-Zaitoun Boys Elementary School, students pasted stickers with the names of fellow students killed during the conflict, as teachers struggled to cope with the badly damaged facilities - a hole in a ceiling here, a partially collapsed wall there.

"I'm not as excited coming to school as I was in the past," said student Tamar Toutah, 11. "I feel that something is missing. I asked about my fellow students, but some were killed or wounded."

Thabet said that unlike in previous years, the first week of instruction in government schools will be given over to providing psychological counseling and recreational activities to help children transition to learning.

"We gave special training to more than 11,000 teachers and 3,000 principals and administrators about how to address students after the conflict," he said.

Limited support

Thabet said 26 Gaza schools were destroyed during the conflict, and another 232 sustained damage.

He said government funding for education remains limited, with no money provided for operational expenses since the formation of a unity government earlier this year between Hamas, the Islamic militant group that runs Gaza, and the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, based in the West Bank.

UNICEF official June Kunugi echoed his concerns.

"Investing in education is an investment for the future," she said. "Without increased support and commitment to their education and protection, an entire generation in Gaza could be lost."

The UN Palestinian refugee agency said it is providing 130,000 school bags and teaching aids for government schools, and has carried out training programs for nearly 12,000 school counselors, teachers and supervisors.

Dour mood

Despite the assistance, teacher Akram al-Fares, 45, said the mood among his colleagues was dour.

"We are in the same boat with the kids. We lived through the same very difficult days," he said. "But we are here together to prove that life continues, and not only can we teach, but also our kids can learn."

The conflict between Israel and Hamas-led militants stemmed from the abduction and killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank in June. Israel blamed the attack on Hamas and carried out a wave of arrests, which was followed by an increase in rocket fire from Gaza that prompted Israeli air-strikes and then a ground invasion.

The fighting ended with an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire on Aug 26.

The Gaza conflict - the third in just over five years - left more than 2,100 Palestinians dead, the majority of them civilians, including hundreds of children, according to Palestinian and UN officials.

Israel said the number of militants killed was much higher and accuses Hamas of using civilians as human shields. On the Israeli side, 66 soldiers and six civilians were killed.

(China Daily 09/15/2014 page11)

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