Diana summed up the situation eloquently: ‘Schools should be places of learning, but we have turned them into places to live.’ The school she attends, like many others in Gaza, has been transformed into a shelter for displaced families. Inside these makeshift shelters, students express their longing to return to the classrooms.
Since the escalation of conflict sparked by Hamas-led terror attacks nearly two years ago, followed by Israeli offensives, most of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinian residents have been forced to move multiple times. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), nearly 660,000 children are currently out of school.
In one school run by UNRWA, the corridors have been turned into cramped living spaces. Diana, who fled with her family from the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City to this temporary shelter, now carries a suitcase filled with clothes instead of a school bag.
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