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“Devastating reality” leaves Gaza’s students fearful for their futures

Salma al-Hindi, 21, is facing an uncertain future.

A mathematics undergraduate, Salma saw her university, Al-Azhar, destroyed in November 2023, when the Israeli military bombed the campus.

Since then, and displaced with her family from their home in the al-Nasr neighborhood of Gaza City to a tent inside the grounds of Al-Nasr Pediatric Hospital, al-Hindi has struggled.

“How am I supposed to study,” she asked in January when talking to The Electronic Intifada. “For the past 15 months, my family and I have been living in a tent without electricity, internet or a computer.”

To make matters worse, al-Hindi said her course textbooks were lost forever when her family’s house was bombed in October 2023. …..more

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