The Palestinian education ministry says that 4,368 Palestinian students have been killed in the occupied territories since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7 on the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reports.

In a statement, the ministry said that the number of students killed in Gaza over the past three and a half months is 4,327, with another 7,819 wounded in Israeli attacks.

In the occupied West Bank, 41 students were killed and 282 others injured. At least 85 students were arrested by Israel in the same time period.

In the Gaza Strip, 231 teachers and administrators were killed and 756 injured.

According to the ministry, at least 281 government schools and 65 schools affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) were bombed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, resulting 83 of them being severely damaged and seven completely destroyed.

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