Gaza’s ministry of education and higher education said that 12,329 Palestinian students were killed and 20,160 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 explained in a statement today that the number of students who were killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the aggression reached more than 13,054, and those who were injured reached 21,320, while in the West Bank 123 students were killed and 671 others were injured, in addition to the arrest of 560.

It indicated that 657 teachers and administrators were killed and 3,904 were injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and more than 165 were detained in the West Bank.

The ministry pointed out that 324 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, 128 were completely destroyed, and 57 were partially destroyed, while 109 schools and 7 universities in the West Bank were stormed and vandalised.