Gaza’s education ministry said that 12,799 students were killed and 20,942 were injured since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on October 7, 2023, Wafa reports.

The ministry said, in a statement, that the number of students who were killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the aggression reached more than 12,681, and those who were injured reached 20,311, while in the West Bank 118 students were killed and 631 others were injured, in addition to the arrest of 538 students.

It confirmed that 598 teachers and administrators were killed, while 3,801 were injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and more than 158 were detained in the West Bank.

The ministry pointed out that 425 government schools, universities and their buildings, and 65 affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), were bombed and vandalised in the Gaza Strip.

It also confirmed that 788,000 students in the Gaza Strip are still deprived of attending their schools and universities since the beginning of the aggression, while most students suffer from psychological trauma and face difficult health conditions.