Makeshift tent classrooms serving hundreds of thousands of displaced children in eastern Khan Younis are repeatedly being hit by Israeli bullets. The attacks have caused life-altering injuries, including a teacher left partially immobilized and a nine-year-old child who required emergency artery surgery after a bullet ricocheted off a blackboard. These makeshift schools rely on sand barriers for protection, but rounds still penetrate teaching and administrative spaces. With normal school buildings overwhelmingly compromised, surviving programs are limited to restricted shifts with pupils seated on the ground.
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Extreme shortages of space and personnel force surviving initiatives to restrict instruct…: Extreme shortages of space and personnel force surviving initiatives to restrict instruction to three hours a day, three days a week.
Makeshift educational spaces remain vulnerable to active gunfire despite efforts by staff…: Makeshift educational spaces remain vulnerable to active gunfire despite efforts by staff to erect protective sand barriers around camps.
Long medical evacuation backlogs prevent critically injured education personnel from rece…: Long medical evacuation backlogs prevent critically injured education personnel from receiving specialized care for complex bullet wounds.
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Palestinian teacher Sahar Abushbeika was explaining a science lesson to her third-grade pupils when an Israeli bullet struck her lower back, leaving her bleeding in front of her students.
Within seconds, she collapsed as the children gathered around her, screaming for help.
Abushbeika, who teaches at Dawn of Hope, a makeshift tent school in eastern Khan Younis, southern Gaza, says she was shot by Israeli forces on 30 September.
“It was a normal day. Nothing unusual was happening near the school. I arrived in the morning as usual and began explaining the lesson when I suddenly heard what sounded like a drone, followed by a small explosion,” Abushbeika told Middle East Eye.
“I felt something hit my lower back and realised it was a bullet. The pupils panicked, and I tried to calm them down, but they saw the blood, and I fell to the ground. All I remember is the screams of my students before I found myself in hospital.”
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