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Even as war has destroyed hundreds of schools and displaced hundreds of thousands of families, Palestinian authorities have managed to keep about half of Gaza's students learning through an online education system.

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00:00Because during the three years, more than 300,000 schools has been destroyed in Gaza.
00:09And those schools either destroyed or they have been used as shelter for families.
00:15So there's no schools that kids can go.
00:18Of course, all their surrounding environment has been destroyed.
00:24They don't practice their childhood at all, zero.
00:28And in a daily basis, they face what we just talked about there, that they have to secure the needs
00:34of their family.
00:36Sometimes we are talking about three-year-old kids who just walked recently, need also to participate in the preparation
00:44for securing their food.
00:47Of course, those kids as well, they don't get clothes, they don't get shoes.
00:54Like I suffer as a minister of social development just to allow shoes, shoes to enter into Gaza.
01:02So it's not easy.
01:04What children are facing is not easy.
01:06We are talking about one million children that's below 18 years old that they need psychological support.
01:13There is a huge trauma within the children because of the continuing bumping, the continuing hearing explosion.
01:24And this is all causing huge psychological problems.
01:29There was a project through UNICEF that started to provide psychological support for the children.
01:36And some of them, they come up with a project called The Gaza We Want.
01:42And they started to develop scenes on how they want to see Gaza with gardens, schools, universities.
01:51And they shared this vision with our prime minister, Dr. Mohamed Mustafa.
01:57And it is important that still the hope is existing.
02:02And, of course, a huge part of those children became handicapped, people with disabilities,
02:08because most of the injuries are trims in their hands and legs.
02:16But still, they have this hope that they want to rebuild Gaza and see the Gaza they want.
02:25And some, like, out of 600,000 students that need schools, around 300,000 now are onboarding on the e
02:35-learning,
02:36like almost 50% of those students.
02:38And there is lots of units now managed by the Ministry of Education, Palestinian Ministry of Education,
02:45to allow for education contacts.
02:51But the most, depending on e-education, e-learning, we have this system that developed with the help of Kingdom
03:00of Jordan.
03:01And it's a credible system that allows for teachers from West Bank.
03:07We have teachers from West Bank that provide the teaching for the students in Gaza,
03:12in addition to teachers in Gaza.
03:16Also, we were able to conduct the high school exam.
03:20This is the last exam after 12 years of being at the primary education.
03:26We were able to conduct it online for three times now.
03:32Around 104,000 students did the exam inside Gaza and around 30,000, around 3,000 outside Gaza in 50,
03:4336 countries through our embassies.
03:48So, you know, doing an international office program is very muchому to do as the national history,
03:53within a grocery store.
03:53And, on that 65K, you know, running across the country on 3,000, around 30,000...
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