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Scholasticide in Gaza

On the Systematic Destruction of Palestinian Education

![Students attend classes at the Islamic University of Gaza](https://everythingispolitical.com/uploads/Screenshot-2026-01-09-at-12.02.00 PM.jpg)

Gaza graduated its students in mid-November. In caps and gowns, students walked through the ruins, holding diplomas for an education they fought with their lives to keep alive. This is what resistance looks like when a society is being targeted for erasure.

What Israel's assault sought to destroy, the more than 97 percent of schools damaged or destroyed and all twelve universities reduced to rubble---Palestinians are rebuilding with their hands, their voices, and their refusal to simply disappear.

In Conversation:
Jwan Zreiq
Filed under:
Essays
Topics:
Art of Resistance
Location:
Palestine