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Gaza college students sit exams for first time since conflict started in October 2023

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A whole bunch of Palestinian college students in Gaza are taking an important end-of-secondary-school examination organised by the besieged enclave’s Ministry of Schooling within the hope of getting into college research.

Earlier this month, the ministry introduced Saturday’s examination, which would be the first since Israel started its genocidal conflict on Gaza after the Hamas-led assault in southern Israel in October 2023.

The ministry confirmed that about 1,500 college students are registered to take the examination, which can be performed electronically utilizing specialised software program, including that each one vital technical preparations have been carried out to make sure clean administration.

Some college students are sitting the web examination at dwelling, whereas others are taking it at venues relying on the area they’re in, with security concerns in thoughts, given the day by day Israeli bombardment.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, careworn that for Palestinian college students, the examination is a essential gateway to greater schooling, scholarships and a future past the Israeli blockade.

He mentioned: “Even in a warzone, with no lecture rooms, no books and barely any web, Gaza’s college students are exhibiting up, logging in and sitting their last examination, refusing to let conflict erase their future.”

After the conflict began, the schooling of many college students in Gaza has been placed on maintain, and the outcomes of Saturday’s examination will permit them to proceed their research at college.

Many ought to have been at college by now, however remained at the highschool stage because of the conflict, as Israeli assaults have devastated Gaza’s schooling system, together with the remainder of the territory’s civilian infrastructure.

In response, Gaza’s Schooling Ministry has launched a web-based platform – the primary of its form in Gaza – to allow highschool seniors to take their last examination.

“College students have downloaded the app to take their examination, however they face many challenges,” Morad al-Agha, the exams director of the Central Gaza Governorate, informed Al Jazeera.

“We’ve got raised these issues with the ministry to verify they’re resolved, so college students can sit for his or her exams with out disruption.”

‘It’s so troublesome’

College students log in from cafes, tents and shelters – wherever they’ll discover a charged system and a working web connection.

Earlier than the ultimate examination, they’ve accomplished a mock take a look at, designed not solely to check their information but in addition the system’s stability.

Nevertheless, college students inform Al Jazeera that going digital in Gaza has not been straightforward.

“We’re taking exams on-line, however it’s so troublesome,” scholar Doha Khatab mentioned. “The web is weak, many people should not have gadgets and there’s no protected house to take the take a look at. We additionally misplaced our books within the bombardment.”

To assist them, a couple of academics have reopened broken lecture rooms and are providing in-person steerage.

“It’s the first time the ministry has accomplished this on-line and college students are confused, so we’re making an attempt to information them step-by-step,” instructor Enam Abu Slisa informed Al Jazeera.

The conflict in Gaza and the destruction of 95 p.c of academic infrastructure have left greater than 660,000 youngsters out of college – almost all of Gaza’s school-aged inhabitants, based on the United Nations.

Many former UN-run colleges are actually getting used as shelters for displaced folks and likewise face relentless, lethal Israeli assaults.

A report back to the UN Human Rights Council discovered that Israeli forces systematically destroyed schooling infrastructure in Gaza. The report described these actions as potential conflict crimes.

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