LONDON: For the third consecutive year, as students elsewhere grab their backpacks and return to class, children in Gaza carry what little they have left, fleeing from one danger zone to another, their futures uncertain. Some 660,000 school-age children in Gaza have been deprived of formal education since Oct. 7, 2023, when a Hamas-led attack on southern Israel triggered Israel’s retaliatory war in Gaza, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. For most Gazan families, survival has eclipsed every other concern. “Families have been uprooted 10, even 15 times.

Children make up half of Gaza's population, fighting to survive the bombs, guns, starvation, thirst, sickness and displacement caused by conflict.

LONDON: For the third consecutive year, as students elsewhere grab their backpacks and return to class, children in Gaza carry what little they have left, fleeing from one danger…