The ministry explained in a statement today that the number of students who were killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the aggression reached more than 13,054, and those who were injured reached 21,320, while in the West Bank 123 students were killed and 671 others were injured, in addition to the arrest of 560.
It indicated that 657 teachers and administrators were killed and 3,904 were injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and more than 165 were detained in the West Bank.
The ministry pointed out that 324 government schools, universities and their buildings, and 65 affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were bombed and vandalised in the Gaza Strip, 128 were completely destroyed, and 57 were partially destroyed, while 109 schools and 7 universities in the West Bank were stormed and vandalised.A number of students suffered from suffocation after the Israeli occupation forces stormed West Bank’s town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, Wafa reports.
Local sources said to Wafa that the occupation forces stormed Al-Khader and were stationed in the areas of Al-Tall and Al-Baraka in the old town, and fired tear gas and sound bombs at the students, which led to a number of them suffering from suffocation, amid clashes.
Wafa correspondent reported that the occupation forces have been continuing their daily attacks on Al-Khader students for some time, by firing tear gas and sound bombs, detaining a number of them and subjecting them to investigation, and pursuing others in the neighborhoods and streets, with the aim of disrupting the educational process.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that Cuba had filed with the court’s registry, based on Article 63 of the court’s statute, a declaration of intervention in the case concerning the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip, known as South Africa vs Israel, Wafa reports.
The court explained that “in availing itself of the right of intervention granted by Article 63, Cuba relies on its status as a party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 9 December 1948,” noting that Cuba “will, in its declaration, give its interpretation of Articles I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII and IX of the Convention.”
