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Photo Essay: Gaza children begin school amid devastation caused by Israeli violence

Posted on September 14, 2014September 24, 2018 By Mohammed Asad 1 Comment on Photo Essay: Gaza children begin school amid devastation caused by Israeli violence
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Gaza children begin school amid devastation caused by Israeli violence

By Mohammed Asad

Palestinian children show the distress on their faces caused by the war crimes of Israel's terrorist military assault that targeted civilian homes and buildings. (Photo (C) Copyright 2014 Mohammed Asad and may be used with full attribution to Mohammed Asad and The Arab Daily News.)
Palestinian children show the distress on their faces caused by the war crimes of Israel’s terrorist military assault that targeted civilian homes and buildings. (Photo (C) Copyright 2014 Mohammed Asad and may be used with full attribution to Mohammed Asad and The Arab Daily News.)

More than 50,000 Palestinian school children showed up for the first day of classes at more than 125 schools in the Gaza Strip in Palestine, weeks after Israel abruptly ended its vicious military assault and violence against the civilian population.

Children were forced to gather in buildings amid the rubble of the devastation caused by Israel’s terrorism.

Israel attacked the Gaza Strip on July 8 and the military invasion lasted 51 days. During the more than seven week violent assault, Israeli soldiers killed more than 2,200 people including more than 500 babies, infants, children and teenagers.

Israel has been accused of committing war crimes as many of the civilians were intentionally targeted by Israeli soldiers and murdered in cold blood. Israel asserted the high civilian fatality rate was caused because Hamas used civilians as human shields but in realityIsrael used the close proximity of militants defending themselves against Israel’s terrorist assault as an excuse to destroy thousands of civilian homes and the civilian infrastructure in several major population centers in Gaza.

Nearly all of the schools in the Gaza Strip suffered damage and thousands of civilians homes, including 24 schools, were completely destroyed.

A bigger challenge, Ministry of Education officials said, is coordinating the registration of children whose families were forced to flee their homes by the Israeli military terrorism and violence during the assault. Coordinating the registration of children who are now living in temporary shelter has been challenging, officials said.

The school season started two weeks late because of the Israeli assault. To further complicate the inauguration of the school year, Israel’s military occupation forces, which falsely claim they do not control the Gaza Strip, refused to allow the Palestinian Minister of Education’s Khawla al-Shakhshir to visit the schools and direct the delayed opening of the schools. Schools in the West Bank had officially begun two weeks earlier.

Many children suffered enormous stress and fear as a result of the 51 days of Israeli terrorism that targeted their homes, destroyed their neighborhoods and killed friends and members of their families.

Israel publicly claims the Gaza Strip is no longer occupied but its soldiers control the entry and exit into the Palestinian territory of civilians and all merchandise. Israeli officials meticulously manage all travel to and from the Gaza Strip in Palestine and frequently denies entry to high-level Palestinian officials to cross between the two occupied territories.

Schools open weeks late in the Gaza Strip, Palestine as a result of Israel terrorist assault against the civilian population. (Photo (C) Copyright 2014 Mohammed Asad and may be used with full attribution to Mohammed Asad and The Arab Daily News.)
Schools open weeks late in the Gaza Strip, Palestine as a result of Israel terrorist assault against the civilian population. (Photo (C) Copyright 2014 Mohammed Asad and may be used with full attribution to Mohammed Asad and The Arab Daily News.)
Palestinian children show the distress on their faces caused by the war crimes of Israel's terrorist military assault that targeted civilian homes and buildings. (Photo (C) Copyright 2014 Mohammed Asad and may be used with full attribution to Mohammed Asad and The Arab Daily News.)
Palestinian children show the distress on their faces during the first day of classes, caused by the war crimes of Israel’s terrorist military assault that targeted civilian homes and buildings. (Photo (C) Copyright 2014 Mohammed Asad and may be used with full attribution to Mohammed Asad and The Arab Daily News.)
The Israeli terrorism targeting civilians has a huge emotional impact on the children. (Photo (C) Copyright 2014 Mohammed Asad and may be used with full attribution to Mohammed Asad and The Arab Daily News.)
The Israeli terrorism targeting civilians has a huge emotional impact on the children. (Photo (C) Copyright 2014 Mohammed Asad and may be used with full attribution to Mohammed Asad and The Arab Daily News.)
Schools open weeks late in the Gaza Strip, Palestine as a result of Israel terrorist assault against the civilian population. (Photo (C) Copyright 2014 Mohammed Asad and may be used with full attribution to Mohammed Asad and The Arab Daily News.)
Palestinian children reflect the defiance against Israel’s war crimes and terrorism among the destruction of thousands of civilian buildings and neighborhoods. (Photo (C) Copyright 2014 Mohammed Asad and may be used with full attribution to Mohammed Asad and The Arab Daily News.)
Schools open weeks late in the Gaza Strip, Palestine as a result of Israel terrorist assault against the civilian population. (Photo (C) Copyright 2014 Mohammed Asad and may be used with full attribution to Mohammed Asad and The Arab Daily News.)
Schools open weeks late in the Gaza Strip, Palestine as a result of Israel terrorist assault against the civilian population. (Photo (C) Copyright 2014 Mohammed Asad and may be used with full attribution to Mohammed Asad and The Arab Daily News.)
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Mohammed Asad is a photo journalist based in the Gaza Strip. Friend him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/mohammed.asad.90.

photographer Mohammed Asad's photo of Dalia Khalifa won an award in March 2015 at a competition organised by the UN.

'Unbreakable' - is the photo of 9yr old Dalia Khalifa, taken at Al-Shifa Hospital on Aug 9th, 2014. Dalia was badly injured in an Israeli air strike during Operation 'Protective Edge'.

'Unbreakable' is the Grand Jury Winner in the photography competition, organised by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Middle East and North Africa (UN OCHA).

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Mohammed Asad's home in Shujaiyya was destroyed by Israeli missiles, mortars and tank fire on Friday August 1, 2014 while he was documenting the Israeli massacre of civilians in the Gaza Strip. He is now living in temporary housing as he scrambles to find Internet access to share his photographs when possible.]
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  1. Ray Hanania says:
    September 14, 2014 at 6:43 am

    What Israel did in the Gaza Strip is so disgusting on so many levels. The intentional targeting of civilians, the terrorism and the war crimes. And yet most Israelis sit back and pretend they don’t support a terrorist government.

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