The University of Palestine has been blown up, just like the educational future of the 1.5 million young people under 18 years of age who lived in the Gaza Strip. “This is the first time in the history of the Palestinian people, not even in the Nakba or the Naksa, that people have had to stop studying,” laments doctor Mohamed Odeh in the West Bank.

Education has always been a priority in Gaza, where before the start of the Israeli offensive there were schools on every corner. However, these more than three months of attacks have changed everything: in the Palestinian enclave 4,510 students have already died and there are also 7,911 injured students, while 231 teachers deadthere are more than 756 teachers injured and 71 detained.

During this time, the macabre images of the schools of the UNRWA, bombed without mercy. And educational centers are one of the institutions that has suffered the most along with hospitals, an atrocious scenario that will cost to rebuild, just like the lives of these little ones.

“There are children who have no one left: neither father, nor mother, nor brother nor sister… I don’t think this child is fit to go to school directly without a psychological assistance. I don’t know how we are going to do it, I don’t think we have that many specialists,” warns Odeh.

This is the case of Abdelrahman, who He is 13 years old and saw his mother die at the beginning of the attacks. She now lives in one of many temporary refugee camps and he just wants to go home: “I want to rest, for everything to be over,” he says. Despite everything, he wants to go back to school and become a doctor, the promise he made to his mother.