Published : 12-08-2018
Several schools have gone out of operation in war-torn Syria as a result of the deadly hostilities. In 2015, 75% of persons in Syria had access to education, down from 95% prior to the outbreak of the warfare.
UNRWA figures have shown that 70% of all the Agency’s schools in Syria are inoperative. This is due to school buildings being destroyed, damaged, rendered inaccessible by fighting, or because they have been turned into shelters housing the displaced.
47,000 Palestinian schoolchildren have received academic courses in 104 UNRWA schools.
The devastating impact of the war in Syria has diminished the academic achievement of students in UN-run schools as educational facilities had come under heavy shelling by the Syrian and Russian forces.
Dozens of schoolchildren were pronounced dead in government onslaughts on UNRWA-run schools in Syria.
A massacre perpetrated by the government military on Ein AlZaytoun school and a local clinic run by the agency on February 18, 2014, took away the lives of over 15 Palestinian schoolchildren.
At the same time, a barrel bomb dropped by the government forces near Teraan School on February 9, 2014, left 40 schoolchildren and four teaching staff members wounded.
Several such attacks against UNRWA schools in Khan Eshieh Camp, AlNeirab Camp, and Yarmouk Camp, among other embattled zones, have been documented all the way through the conflict in Syria. All warring parties have been held accountable.
UNRWA managed to rehabilitate its institutions in such refugee camps as AlHusainiya, AlSabina, and AlSayeda Zeinab, after residents were allowed to return to their homes.
Several schools have gone out of operation in war-torn Syria as a result of the deadly hostilities. In 2015, 75% of persons in Syria had access to education, down from 95% prior to the outbreak of the warfare.
UNRWA figures have shown that 70% of all the Agency’s schools in Syria are inoperative. This is due to school buildings being destroyed, damaged, rendered inaccessible by fighting, or because they have been turned into shelters housing the displaced.
47,000 Palestinian schoolchildren have received academic courses in 104 UNRWA schools.
The devastating impact of the war in Syria has diminished the academic achievement of students in UN-run schools as educational facilities had come under heavy shelling by the Syrian and Russian forces.
Dozens of schoolchildren were pronounced dead in government onslaughts on UNRWA-run schools in Syria.
A massacre perpetrated by the government military on Ein AlZaytoun school and a local clinic run by the agency on February 18, 2014, took away the lives of over 15 Palestinian schoolchildren.
At the same time, a barrel bomb dropped by the government forces near Teraan School on February 9, 2014, left 40 schoolchildren and four teaching staff members wounded.
Several such attacks against UNRWA schools in Khan Eshieh Camp, AlNeirab Camp, and Yarmouk Camp, among other embattled zones, have been documented all the way through the conflict in Syria. All warring parties have been held accountable.
UNRWA managed to rehabilitate its institutions in such refugee camps as AlHusainiya, AlSabina, and AlSayeda Zeinab, after residents were allowed to return to their homes.
