Gas- As soon as the professor, Diana Abu Zaaroura, learned the start of the preparation to resume her studies in the Gaza Strip, she was quick to join a volunteer in a school west of Gaza City, she worked before War in private pink nun school, and it was forced to leave and move it from one place to another, in search of security.
Diana feels a lot of enthusiasm and she is again due to her profession, within a class of the cellar of the al -nasr model, which the Ministry of Education has chosen to be the One of the basic educational points that returned to study again, and she said to Al -jazeera Net: “My grief and my fear for our students pushed me to volunteer, they suffered a lot during the war, and Their future is in hazard.”
On Sunday, the ministry announced the gradual resumption of education in the Gaza Strip in dozens of educational points, despite the general destruction of its head office and schools.
Since the start of the horrible Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, school and university education has been completely disrupted and students have lost the academic year (2023-2024), threatened by the loss of the ‘next academic year (2024 (2024 (2024 -2025).
War tax
Professor Diana was surprised by the deterioration of the educational level of her students, who are of the main stage, and said: they suffer from major reading and writing problems, and weakened in many other skills due to their length.
But she says, while she stands next to a blackboard written on a large line, “o Gaza Nationalist and I am upset”, if her request is intelligent and that they will quickly restore their capacities, and they will compensate What they lost during the war.
The young teacher faces many difficulties, such as the lack of ideal conditions for education in schools that have become shelter centers, but this confirms that teachers and students will overcome all obstacles confronted on their way .
Long path
Mahmoud Matar, deputy under-secretary of the Ministry of Education, recognizes that the decision to resume education is only a small step in a long path, which is faced with many difficulties, and he said on the sidelines From the opening year of Al-Jazeera Net “We can say that what happened today is a first initiative to resume education, but the road is still long, because the challenges are great, But things will continue successively. “
The manager said that the ministry had opened 100 educational points in all regions of the Gaza Strip, adding that “these points would double day after day”, but he has not provided a specific number of students who will return to Study seats, preferring to wait for the stability of the situation and the student council who started to come.
He explained that the ministry will fix many classrooms in schools, and this will depend on tents as an alternative to destroyed classes, as he indicated that the study will be partly at this stage, for a period of 3 days a week , offer the possibility to as many students as possible to benefit.
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Matar pointed out that the Ministry of Education had “treated the study program” and integrated them into “educational packages” in order to combine the conditions of the students, and said that the ministry provides an electronic product service by the through special platforms to compensate for the students, stressing at the same time that 93% of schools in the sector have left the service due to Israeli bombings.
In the secondary school students’ file, born in 2006, he declared that the ministry will announce the date of the final exam shortly after completing the necessary procedures, without excluding that it is “electronic”.
Sacrifices
The teacher union, Khairi Atallah, indicates that teachers – like other segments of the Palestinian people – paid a high price for the assault of the occupation, and he declared to Al -jazeera Net: “We are looking for in Limit the victims of the Ministry of Education of Martyrs, Wounded and Detainees and owners of destructive houses, and we have a first teachers of teachers.
Atallah welcomed the decision to open the academic year and said: “It is a success for our people and the Ministry of Education in order to continue the educational process despite the aggression and destruction.”
He thanked the teachers who returned to work despite their difficult situation, adding that “many teachers and volunteers apply for the courses to serve their people, and the work will continue until we do what our students missed and reach the required level “.
Joy and pain
In the morning queue for the Al -Nasr school, dozens of students were satisfied with the decision to return to education, and after listening to the Palestinian national anthem, and some students presenting technical performance , students walked in class towards their education lessons who survived the Israeli destruction machine.
The student, Fajr Mahdi, 11 many difficulties due to the interruption of electricity and the absence of the Internet.
As for Ahmed Al -Hurafa, he suffered a lot from the circumstances of the war, and his family was limited to his house in March 2024, before the army arrives the family men and then destroyed all their house, which led to the death of a number of family members.
“I am very happy to go back to the study, I encourage and I want to return to my previous life before the war,” adds Ahmed in the sixth year.
As for Hatem Abu Arab, he also crossed difficult circumstances during the war.
“I spent months of war in pain and pain, why don’t we like children of the world, why kill our children and destroy our schools, why did the separation of loved ones added?” Good talent in rhetoric.