Overview
- More than 630,000 children missed two years of schooling, and UNICEF says only about 100,000 have returned.
- UNRWA is delivering temporary lessons to roughly 40,000 students while about 75,000 displaced people still shelter in its schools.
- Many school buildings are damaged or destroyed, pushing classes into tents and prefabs with limited space and materials.
- UNICEF says Israel has blocked items it labels non-critical, including basic school supplies, and COGAT offered no immediate comment.
- U.N. experts say reconstruction has not begun and could take years at a cost of about $70 billion, with past reports of Hamas using some schools for military purposes shaping security debates.