(21 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip – 28 June 2025
1. Various of Sarah Qanan, who is preparing for the high school exam, studying in a destroyed room in her relatives’ house.
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sarah Qanan, Palestinian student in high school:
"This war has greatly affected us. We, as students, have suffered from the war. We’ve been suffering for two years. Our lives have been on hold for two years. We’ve lost a lot in this war. A sense of fear always accompanies us, but we had hope that we could take exams at any moment. This war has affected me in every way. Not just me, but 70,000 students in the Gaza Strip who have suffered from this problem. Our lives, which were filled with good dreams, have turned into nothingness."
3. Various of Sarah studying with her father
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sarah Qanan, Palestinian student in high school:
"I had a room, I studied comfortably, and I always felt safe. I used to go to my classes safely. There was safe transportation to get to and from classes. But now, everything has changed. The only means of transportation are carts, and we fear being directly targeted or injured by nearby bombing."
5. Various of Sarah setting fire under a pot to cook food
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sarah Qanan, Palestinian student in high school:
"In the past, I had a dream: to study a good major that would change me and through it, change society, such as medicine or engineering. But now, my only dream is to survive this war, me and my family."
7. Various of Sarah with her father in their destroyed house
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Qanan, father of Palestinian student in high school:
"This war has been extremely difficult for Palestinian society as a whole, especially after the Israeli occupation’s systematic destruction of universities and educational institutions, including public secondary and elementary schools, even kindergartens were destroyed and crushed under Israeli bulldozers and tanks."
9. Various of Sarah with her father outside their destroyed house
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Qanan, father of Palestinian student in high school:
"My daughter Sarah has been denied the opportunity to sit for her high school diploma for two years. She is now supposed to be in her second year of university. She, along with her classmates and our student relatives, have been denied an education. Why should they be denied an education for two full years because of the war and the war of extermination?"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip – 2 July 2025
11. Various of Hadeel Abu Lihia, displaced woman in Muwasi Khan Younis, teaching her children inside their tent
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hadeel Abu Lihia, displaced woman in Muwasi Khan Younis, who teaches her children:
"They are getting older, but their minds are still stuck in the year the war began when they stopped going to school. I am very worried, and this is a huge problem. I fear for my children’s future."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 16 July 2025
13. Various of displaced people’s tents near the destroyed buildings of the Islamic University
14. Various of displaced people’s tents inside the destroyed university buildings
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maram Hamad, displaced from Beit Hanoun:
"Our children need an education. I feel sad about their situation, between filling water containers, waiting for charity (cooked food), and other matters. I try to educate my children as much as I can."
16. Displaced woman sitting with her children near fire
18. Various of destroyed school
20. Various of destroyed school
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