Specialist in Education in Emergency, Inclusive Education, Training, Facilitation and Advocacy for the Right to Education.
⁉ How will schools ever restore their image as places of learning, joy, hope, and a promising future, after being turned into displacement centers, then targeted while hosting displaced refugees ⁉ 🚨 Much to unpack in this question, which I continue to seek answers for. How can children ever trust these schools again when they have repeatedly become military targets, bombed and destroyed ⁉ ⁉ When many displaced families were attacked inside these learning spaces while seeking shelter ⁉ How can the blue and white United Nations flag, raised over these schools, ever represent a safe space for learning and growth again ⁉ 👨🎓👨🎓👨🎓 This month, tens of thousands of Palestinian students should have started their new school year. But the destruction inflicted on Gaza’s education system is unimaginable: thousands of students and hundreds of teachers have been killed, while hundreds of schools destroyed or damaged over the past eleven months. 🌏 This deliberate devastation of Gaza's education system not only threatens the future of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children but also undermines the international humanitarian system and our shared moral compass. 🚨 Will the global community is gradually accepting the unacceptable⁉ The normalization of violence against schools is a stark indication of a deeper crisis in our global values, where ensuring the protection of the innocent is no longer guaranteed, and our collective humanity is eroding. 🎒 318 schools in Gaza directly targeted, with dozens more attacks following since. Schools are meant for education. These military actions represent a direct assault on the basic rights of civilians, especially children. 🌐 The right to education is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is a right even in times of war, as stipulated in the Fourth Geneva Convention. How can this right be ensured for Palestinian children when their schools are reduced to rubble and craters? When the international community tolerates violations of international law for months and years, it gradually normalizes them, ultimately weakening global standards. What this abuse of right to education considered fundamental betrayal of the core principles of international law and the protection of civilians? The choice before us is clear: either we act decisively to uphold the principles of humanitarian law and protect the innocent, or we allow the continued erosion of our shared values to go unchecked. The world cannot remain indifferent, because the cost of inaction is measured in the lives and futures of children. #Gaza
“Children in the #Gaza Strip have lost their homes, family members, friends, safety, and routine,They have also lost the sanctuary and stimulation provided by school,” Adele Khodr UNICEF Regional Director As children prepare for their first year and first day at school at least 45,000 six-year-old children in the Gaza Strip are deprived of this right Read more: https://bit.ly/3MBMKiQ
