The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor denounced the Usurping Entity army’s insistence on militarizing civilian objects in Gaza, including converting schools and educational institutions into military bases, barricades, and detention centers, disregarding all treaties and international conventions that protect educational institutions in the world.

 

The Euro-Med Monitor said in a statement that the Usurping Entity army “was not satisfied with its systematic and widespread targeting of schools with bombs, massive destruction, and serious crimes against the people taking shelter inside them, in addition to directly and deliberately targeting them with military operations, and unlawful executions of civilians who fled to those schools. Indeed, they turned a number of those schools into bases and camps for its forces and vehicles, to commit human law violations, such as torture and abuse.

 

The statement added that these practices contradict the rules of international humanitarian law established to protect civilians from the danger of military operations, and also violate the obligations imposed under the Fourth Geneva Convention, to take the necessary measures to ensure the continuation of the education of children and orphans during the ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Euro-Med monitored various schools in the Gaza Strip that the Usurping Entity army turned into military barracks and detention centers during its field invasion of most areas of the Strip, including the “Salah al-Din Middle School” in Gaza City, which was turned into a detention center where they interrogated its residents last February.

 

The center estimates that more than 6,500 students and 756 teachers were martyred and thousands more were injured from October 7th until mid-April, while the numbers increase every day, and at least 625,000 students continue to be deprived of their right to education over an entire academic year.

 

The center highlighted that the Usurping Entity completely or partially destroyed 80% of the schools in the Gaza Strip during its ongoing aggression against Gaza, which United Nations experts described it, in a joint statement issued on April 18, as an educational genocide that deprives the new generation of Palestinians of their future.

It is noteworthy that the Zionist aggression destroyed six universities, including Al-Isra University, which was bombed weeks after it was used as a military base for the army of the Usurping Entity.