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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 31 October 2024
1. Various of children singing and dancing with volunteers dressed as cartoon characters
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Karam Al Farra, program organiser: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"This initiative comes to accommodate more than 1,800 students at intervals, from the first grade to the fourth grade. This initiative comes to bring the students back and integrate them into the educational process after they have been absent from education for more than a year."
3. Various of children singing and dancing during an activity on first day of opening of school in Muwasi, Khan Younis
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Hakeem Kraiem, displaced woman: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 5++
"It’s a good idea. It is enough that it saves children from ignorance, and they continue their education despite the siege and war that we are living through. We continue with education and raise ourselves and our level. We will save this entire generation from ignorance."
5. Various of children sitting inside tent on first day of school opening
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Ali Al-Ghourra, displaced woman: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 7++
"My son was in the first grade and moved to the second grade. He knew how to write and read. During this year, he did not even know the letters. He completely forgot them all, so I am very happy that they opened an educational project here."
7. Various of children singing and dancing
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Children in Muwasi, a tent encampment outside Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, sang songs, danced and took part in other activities on Thursday following the launch of a new school initiative financed by an Omani education fund.
It marks the first school to have a full teaching staff and administration since Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip began after Hamas’ October 7 attacks led to the complete abandonment of the school year in Gaza.
The school program, created by the Wafaa Al-Muhsineen Charitable Foundation with support from the Omani Endowment Fund for Distance Education, seeks to address the devastation caused by the conflict to the Palestinian enclave’s education system, which was already struggling after several wars and escalations with Israel since 2008.
At least 1,800, children from first to fourth grade were expected to attend the first day of the initiative on Thursday.
Administrators said the turnout exceeded expectations "to the point that we are considering stopping registration due to capacity," according to teacher Nora Abu Mossa.
At least 625,000 children have been missing out on education in Gaza, according to U.N. agencies.
Schools have been shut since the war began in October last year.
The majority of schools have been used as shelters to house the many displaced families in Gaza, most of whom are living in unsanitary conditions due to the ongoing fighting in the enclave.
AP video shot by: Abed Al-Kareem Hana
Production by: Wafaa Shurafa
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