When school becomes home: Palestinian teachers describe teaching in a warzone

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Thousands of Palestinian families are sheltering inside schools in the besieged Gaza Strip amid Israel's relentless bombing campaign. Teachers and students at one facility told Euronews reporter Nebal Hajjo what their lives have become.

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00:00 A living hell for teachers working and living in the Gaza Strip. Since Israel began its

00:04 relentless bombardment after Hamas's 7th October attack, schools inside the besieged enclave

00:09 have become makeshift refuge centres for thousands of displaced Palestinians. The Trade Union

00:14 Education International says so far at least 130 teachers have been killed in Israeli strikes.

00:22 "It is not true. I live in a school, I used to go to work and leave after 5 or 6 hours

00:29 of work and come back every day like this."

00:35 While Israeli bombs continue to fall outside, teachers are still trying to conduct lessons

00:40 inside.

00:41 "Today it has been 31 days and I am in school day and night. It is not only a refuge centre

00:50 for the displaced people of Gaza, but it is also a refuge centre for my students. I lost

00:57 many of my students who I used to teach in the Israeli bombings."

01:04 These are some of the students who are living at this school, trying to find moments of

01:13 respite and make sense of it all.

01:18 "I was wearing my school uniform and we were going to school. Then the Israeli bombs came

01:25 and instead of coming to school, we came to this school. Me and my family and my uncles."

01:32 "I used to go to school to learn and sit with the teacher and learn and learn. It is not

01:39 like now. I come to school as a refuge centre. There is no water or electricity and life

01:44 is very difficult."

01:45 More than two-thirds of Gaza's 2.3 million people have fled their homes since the war

01:50 began. According to the Palestinian Health Authority, more than 11,070 Palestinians,

01:55 66% of them women and minors, have been killed. Another 2,650 people have been reported missing.

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