From Classrooms to Combat Zones: How Israel Crushed Gaza’s Education System

When Palestinians returned to their homes during a short, fragile truce, they didn’t find neighborhoods, they found ashes.

Schools that once offered shelter now stood scorched, bombed, and smeared with graffiti from Israeli soldiers. For many, these classrooms had been the last safe haven before tanks and gunfire drove them south. Now, they are ground zero in a war not just on people, but on the future.

In Gaza…