Next Year Is a Myth

In the quiet ruins of Gaza, where hope flickers like a candle in the wind, another academic year has passed, leaving behind the shattered dreams of thousands of students. Last January, as a fragile ceasefire briefly held, the Minister of Education spoke of plans to hold high school exams in February. But the necessary tools; electronic devices, the basic infrastructure for assessment, never arrived. Then, like a recurring nightmare, war returned in March, swallowing yet another…