3,714 students killed in Palestine by 'Israel' since October 7
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Israeli occupation forces are killing students both in Gaza and the West Bank, while also detaining school-age children in the West Bank.
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Palestinian children walk after an Israeli strike on residential buildings in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, December 14, 2023. (AP)
The Palestinian Ministry of Education confirmed that at least 3,714 Palestinian students have been killed by "Israel's" attacks on Gaza and the West Bank since October 7.
According to the ministry's statement, 3,679 students were martyred and 5,429 others were injured in Gaza while in the Occupied West Bank, 35 students were killed and 271 others were wounded.
The statement also noted that Israeli occupational forces (IOF) detained 82 students in the Occupied West Bank since October 7.
In addition, data showed that 209 teachers and administrators were killed and 619 were injured in Gaza, while two were wounded and 65 were detained in the Occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces also bombed 278 government schools and 65 UN-run schools in the Gaza Strip, the ministry said last week.
Read more: More children killed in Gaza since Oct 7 than killed yearly since 2019
Targeting the most innocent
Last week, a report by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor showed that "Israel" has killed more than 10,000 children and infants since the onset of aggression against Gaza.
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported that the total death toll in the Israeli airstrikes and intensive artillery attacks has exceeded 23,012, including 9,077 children and infants, according to preliminary statistics - including those whose bodies remain under the rubble.
UN-built and funded schools have been among the institutions destroyed in Gaza, after being constantly targeted for housing Palestinian refugees since the start of the war.
The Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, confirmed last Wednesday that one of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees' schools in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza was blown up, failing to hold the Israeli occupation forces responsible for this crime.
"Saw videos of an @UNRWA school in northern #Gaza blown up. It is outrageous. All public facilities, including hospitals & @UN schools are protected under international law," Lazzarini wrote on X after users circulated a video of the Israeli occupation forces destroying the school.
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Lazzarini had written a letter to UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis on Friday, foreseeing the eventual loss of lives among his team due to the Israeli aggression on Gaza, which he described as the "darkest hour in the agency's 75-year history."
