Gaza Herald – Despite ongoing gunfire and extensive devastation, children across Gaza continued attending makeshift tent schools after the education system was largely destroyed by war and mass displacement. Temporary classrooms were set up near high-risk zones, where students walked daily through rubble and exposed areas to resume learning after years of interruption.
Reports documented children traveling to these educational tents in northern Gaza, located close to Israeli military positions. The journey took place amid frequent shooting and constant danger, with no protective infrastructure. Education in these conditions remained fragile, conducted in open tents that offered no real shelter from bullets or weather.
According to Gaza’s Director of Education in western Gaza, all educational infrastructure had been destroyed, leaving authorities reliant on temporary solutions in coordination with local and international organizations. Students were taught while sitting on the ground, as classrooms, furniture, and supplies had been wiped out by the genocide.
Official figures from Gaza’s Government Media Office showed that at least 168 schools were used as shelters for displaced families during the war, underscoring the scale of the collapse in the education sector. Even so, efforts to maintain learning continued as part of a broader struggle to prevent a generation of children from losing access to education entirely.
