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Image taken by UNRWA in a temporary school in Gaza during 2025.

After more than two years of war, Palestinian children are hungry, denied education and 'like the living dead' – report

08 Jan 2026

A University of Cambridge-led analysis of how war has affected education and children’s lives in Gaza calls for an urgent increase in international...

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Boy sitting in the rubble of a destroyed UNRWA school in Nuseirat, Middle Areas, Gaza 2024

Palestinian education ‘under attack’, leaving a generation close to losing hope, study warns

25 Sep 2024

Ongoing war in Gaza will set children and young people’s education back by up to 5 years, report suggests.

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Women waging peace

16 Jan 2015

Thousands of Jewish- and Palestinian-Israeli women have joined a movement that is spreading across Israel in opposition to repeated cycles of...

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