"He steps out of the tent where his family lives and makes his way past rows of plastic shelters to the shade of an olive tree, where he has set up a wooden desk. The ground crawls with insects, but here he escapes the mess of daily tent life. He brings a laptop wired to a solar panel, with no battery. "Something only people in Gaza know how to do," he says. Before the heat of the sun becomes unbearable, Hasan works through his lessons."
"Higher education has been, in the words of France24, " wiped off the map " as all 12 of the city's universities lie in ruins. More than a decade ago, the Palestinian scholar Karma Nabulsi coined the word scholasticide to describe the deliberate dismantling of the institutions, people, and processes that make education possible. Today, Gaza is the most complete manifestation of the term."
At dawn in southern Gaza a student wakes to the muezzin, leaves his tent, and studies beneath an olive tree using a laptop wired to a solar panel without a battery. Families live in rows of plastic shelters and daily tent life is infested by insects. As of May 2025 UN agencies estimate at least 95 percent of Gaza's schools are incapacitated or destroyed. UN experts report more than 5,400 students, 261 teachers, and 95 university professors killed. All 12 universities lie in ruins. More than 76,000 students missed the Tawjihi exam across two academic years. The term scholasticide describes the deliberate dismantling of educational institutions, people, and processes.
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