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tv   Ten Minutes Targeting Palestinian Schools  PRESSTV  March 2, 2024 11:43am-12:00pm IRST

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our houses, they kill children, men, women, and old men, i have other place to go, so now my children and i are homeless. it is the israel's habit from ages, they say that children fire rockets.
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nearly five months into israel's devastating onslaught on gaza amit a muted response from the self-proclaimed supporters of peace and human rights. the israeli regime has technically launched a massive ethnic cleansing campaign in gaza while rendering of the palestinian. territory uninhabitable. so far, more than 29,000 people, most of them women and children, have been killed, and over 69,000 others injured in the israeli strikes on the besieged coastal territory. nearly 2 million people have also been displaced in gaza as a result of the israeli unslaught. these. the regime has destroyed
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hundreds of schools, including those run by the un in the besieged palestinian enclave. according to the speaker for unicef, jonathan krick, there is absolutely no form of education or schooling in the gaza strip at the moment. there were approximately 625,00 school age children in the gaza strip. none of them are attending schools now. the level of violence and the ongoing high. hostilities, the intense bombing which is taking place doesn't allow for education. according to the palestinian education officials, at least 280 government schools and 65 unra run schools have been destroyed or damaged. nearly 240 teachers have also lost their lives in israeli strikes on gaza. also more than 4,850 students have been killed and over 8,200 others have been injured as of february 6th. al shama akram
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saidam was one of these students, teenager who graduated from high school as the top ranking palestinian student of 2023 with a 99.6% average score. two months before the israeli onslot on gaza, saidam's home was filled with drums and loud yuliations of women celebrating her achievement. shima had decided to study english. translation at the islamic university of gaza, before she was brutally killed along with several members of her family an israeli air strike targeting a refugee camp in gaza back in october. since of october 2023, more than 625,00 students and 22,500 teachers in gaza have been denied access to schools due to the israeli attacks. i need to study in a new school. we used to
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play, study and have fun in it, but unfortunately the school was destroyed, we had to flee to refugee camp. my dream is to become a journalist, that was the future that i had been dreaming of since was a little child. secondly, we live in a human schools, we cannot drink water like we used to because it it is contaminated, there is no clean water, we live in a tent, they called this. snow and rain are killing us. the israeli military has even targeted the un school sheltering palestinian refugees, killing defenseless civilians, most of them women and children. the gaza strip is home to 12 universities, almost all of them targeted by the israeli military. back in january,
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the israeli military blew up the last standing university in gaza, ellisra university. the israeli military had used the building the university as base for the deadly operations against palestinians in gaza before destroying it. israeli soldiers used hundreds of mines and filmed themselves leveling the educational institution to the ground. the viral video sparked online controversy with many academics and university students around the globe calling for academic. boy god of israel: in this video, a reporter grills a us state department spokesperson on the us silence on israeli atrocities in gaza. i don't know if you've seen the video, it's pretty widely
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available, but it certainly looks, i mean it looks like a control demolition, it looks like what we do here in this country when we're taking down an old hotel or a stadium. um, and you have nothing to say, you have nothing to say about this, i mean to do that kind of an explosion, you need to be in there, you have to put the explosives down, and it takes a lot of planning and preparation to do, and if there was a threat from this particular facility, they wouldn't have been able to do it, so i have seen the video uh, i can tell you that it is something we uh are raising with the governor of israel as we do often do, when we see raising is... to ask questions and and and find out what the underline situation is, as we often do when we see reports of this nature, um, but i'm not able to characterize the actual facts on the ground before hearing that that respon, but you saw the video, i did see the video, i don't, i don't, it looks like, i
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don't, what was under that building, i don't know what was uh inside, inside doesn't matter what was under the building, because they obviously got in there to put the explosives down to to to see. do it in a way that they did, again, i'm, i, i'm glad you have factual certainty about, i just, i just don't, i don't, all i have is what i saw on the video, i just don't, i think, but i can say, we did see it, i can say that we have raised it with not trbing to you, many observers are now saying that israeli forces deliberately target universities and academics as part of a strategy to undermine palestinian capacity to survive, resist and continue as a people, so let's talk about the... assault on and cultural institutions, it's clearly by design. i mean, this is not accidental. what is it that israel, why is it that israel is determined to obliterate educational and cultural institutions, and there are many that i haven't mentioned,
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including gaza's public library, gaza's cultural center. why are these important targets for the israelies? i go, i think they they want to wipe out everything that's that point. to the palestinian identity or palestinian culture, it's like they the the propaganda says they would people with no land came to a land with no people. the israeli attacks on educational centers in gaza comes against the backdrop of the fact that the top palestinian academic figures have been deliberately targeted in israeli attacks. since october 7th, the israeli military has killed at least 94 university professors in gaza. the israeli attacks have killed 94 university professors. these include professor sufan taya, the president the islamic university of gaza and award winning physicist and unesco chair of astronomy, astrophysics and space sciences in
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palestine, who died alongside his family an air strike. dr. akmed hamdi, abu absa deen of the software engineering department at the university of palestine reportedly shot dead by israeli soldiers as he walked away, having been released from the days of enforced detention. professor mohammed eed shabir, professor of immunology and virology and former president of the islamic university of gaza, professor rafat alir, poet and professor of comparative literature and creative writing at the islamic university of gaza, who was killed. along with members of his family. despite all israeli restrictions, palestine has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, with a literacy rate of 96.3% as of 2014. the literacy raid is even higher among males with 98.4% being literate.
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the gaza strip has the highest literacy rate with the literate population of 96.8% compared to 96%. in the west bank. women have made significant progress in literacy over the past two decades, with the rate jumping from 78.6% in 1995 to 94. 1% in 2014. the high literacy rate among palestinians is testimon to their commitment to education despite all the challenges they face. they don't want the people to, to educate themselves, they don't want education, they want to destroy schools, universities, because that's the only way the palestinian had, we don't we have, we had no weapon, we had no future, so we every palestinian. in gaza, as i know, they will debrive themselves from food and they will send their kids to
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college, like they becomes, it becomes like an necessities must, everybody send their kids to college, they have to, they don't let them you know just after high school and sit down, they force him or they ask him to go to college, and even the the young, the young children, the young kids are convinced that you have, you build the future and you can get your country back by education yourself. two years before the israeli onslot on gaza, two journalists asked a number of children in gaza about their dreams. they said they wanted to continue their education and build their country. my dream is to become a doctor. why do you want to become a doctor? to treat people. why to treat people? because the war. i want to become a pilot and travel and free algots, i want to become an
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engineer, why? because whenever the israeli occupation destroys our houses, i could rebuild them, to build my country and let it prosper, to see my country under my hands develop into a beautiful place, over the past eight years. palestinian have demonstrated that israeli aggression cannot extinguish their unwavering spirit and aspirations. despite the immense challenges faced by the palestinian people, their resilience remains unyielding. they've already shown that their dreams for freedom, justice and self-determination cannot be destroyed by genocide or by occupation.
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quebrada de pajul que pasa, como repetimos, esta agua pasa, este quebrada pasa por el centro de la ciudad de sapillica, parte de abajo, ahí vemos que la fuerza está arrastrando, está saliendo por acá.
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i believe that working together we can make history.
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over 100,00 people have been killed or wounded in gaza since october last year, that's about one in every 20, man, woman and child in the...
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