Displaced Palestinian families prepare for the start of the new school year in Gaza City on September 12, 2026. (Photo: Bilal Osama/APA Images)

For the fourth consecutive year, hundreds of thousands of Gaza’s children return not to classrooms, but to fabric shelters and makeshift wooden structures, holding onto traces of a school system Israel’s genocide has destroyed.

Displaced Palestinian families prepare for the start of the new school year in Gaza City on September 12, 2026. (Photo: Bilal Osama/APA Images)

For the fourth consecutive year, hundreds of thousands of Gaza’s children return not to classrooms, but to fabric shelters and makeshift wooden structures, holding onto traces of a school system Israel’s genocide has destroyed.