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10-09-2024
GAZA CITY: More than 630,000 students in Gaza will not be returning to school on Monday, officials said, as Israel’s war on the Palestinian enclave disrupts schooling for a second year.
Israel’s bombardment caused mobile phone and internet outages in central and southern Gaza, according to service provider Paltel and the Wafa news agency.
The King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan will reopen on Monday morning after a brief closure over an attack that killed three Israeli security guards. The gunman has been identified as a Jordanian citizen.
At least 40,972 people have been killed and 94,761 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. In Israel, the number of those killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is at least 1,139, while more than 200 people were taken captive.
The Palestinian Ministry of Education says:
More than 630,000 students have been denied their right to education in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
58,000 students were supposed to join the first grade and start school today.
39,000 students were unable to take their high school exams.
More than 25,000 children have been killed or wounded in Israeli attacks, including more than 10,000 students.
Some 90 percent of 307 public school buildings have been destroyed.
Victims are reporting clashes between Palestinian fighters and Israeli soldiers in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank after Israel’s military launched another raid on the area earlier this evening.
The raid came after Israeli forces laid siege to Tulkarem for 10 days, killing several Palestinians and destroying roads and infrastructure across the refugee camp, including water and power networks.
In Balata, meanwhile, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a Palestinian armed group, said its fighters targeted raiding Israeli troops with a “dense barrage of bullets” and were engaged in “violent clashes” with them.
An Israeli air raid killed five Palestinians in the northern Jabalia refugee camp on Sunday, including the deputy director of Palestinian Civil Defence in northern Gaza.
The agency is responsible for emergency and rescue services.
Syria’s SANA news agency is reporting that Israel’s attacks on areas near the city of Hama has killed five people and wounded 19 people, some of them critically.
The agency cited a statement from the director of the public hospital in Masyaf, a city near Hama.
It added that the attack also caused damage to the Masyaf-Wadi al-Uyun highway and a fire in the Hair Abbas area.
Throughout Syria’s 13-year civil war, Israel has regularly carried out air raids in the country mostly targeting Iran-linked sites. But the Israeli military does not confirm or comment on its operations in Syria.
Israeli officials have confirmed that the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge border crossing will reopen on Monday, at 10am local time (07:00 GMT), for passengers only.
Two other crossings Israel shares with the Jordanians, in the north and the south, will also reopen for passengers only, meaning that no cargo trucks will be let through at any of the three crossings.
It comes after the Jordanian Foreign Ministry announced the findings of their initial investigation into the shooting that killed three Israelis, confirming the identity of the shooter as Maher Ziab Hussein al-Jazi. (Int’l News Desk)
