"To live in Gaza means nothing is guaranteed - neither your wealth, your buildings, your career, nor even your legacy. Only your mind and its principles endure. Growing up in a war-battered reality compelled us to cling to education, just as my father, a retired mathematics teacher, always told me: "I have not invested in entrepreneurs, but in one lasting, fruitful, and ever-present project - your education.""
"Despite all the odds - complete blockade, arbitrary occupation, destitution, and relentless wars - Gaza has proven to the world that we are no less than anyone else. We too are educators, students, scholars, readers, and writers, with literacy rates reaching 98 percent, school enrollment at 90 percent, and higher education enrollment at 45 percent. Yet the ongoing genocide has left nothing intact - not even what is supposed to be protected under international law: schools, hospitals, and residential buildings."
Gaza’s population prioritizes education as a lasting investment amid war, blockade, and deprivation. Families cultivate learning as an enduring legacy, supported by high literacy and enrollment rates despite extreme hardship. The environment includes systematic targeting and destruction of civilian infrastructure that is meant to be protected under international law. Hundreds of educational facilities have been destroyed or damaged, teachers and staff have been killed, and large numbers of children have been killed or deprived of schooling. The combined effects of occupation, blockade, and recurrent military assaults have produced widespread loss, displacement, and interruption of basic educational rights.
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