More than 750 employees working in the field of education have been killed and thousands wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza, the Palestinian Ministry of Education said in an updated statement at the start of the academic year, Al Jazeera reports.

It added that by the end of August, more than 11,500 Palestinian school-age children had been killed and tens of thousands more had experienced injuries, physical disabilities and psychological trauma.

The Ministry claims that Israeli forces also deliberately targeted dozens of school and administrative buildings, with 92 per cent of them out of service as a result.