Makeshift schools have been set up in tents in the southern city of Rafah, where half of the territory's population has now fled. / Photo: AFP
Younger children could develop lifelong cognitive disabilities from malnutrition, while teenagers are likely to feel anger at the injustice they have suffered, she said.David Skinner of Save The Children said rebuilding the"schools is massively complicated... but it's straightforward compared to the education loss".Cognitive damage
Nearly half of the Palestinian territory's population is under 18, and its education system was already struggling after five wars in 20 years.So far in this war at least 53 of Gaza's 563 school buildings have been destroyed, according to UNICEF. "Colleagues who have been here the longest remember maybe one school being hit" in previous conflicts, she said.