The challenges faced by Gaza’s children defy the imagination.
For more than 220 days, they have been terrorized.
Formal education was an early casualty of the current genocidal war. With schools destroyed, damaged or turned into shelters for displaced people, a generation has been denied its right to learn.
Every time I see children, I feel sorrow for their lost childhood. I keep on wondering how long it will take before all of Gaza’s kids can go back to school.
Before the current war, I had spent two years teaching English in Tel al-Hawa, a neighborhood of Gaza City.
While Israel appears determined to foster ignorance, I am adamant that my experience should be used in resisting the erasure of our people. …more