By bombing Gaza’s schools, Israel is taking aim at my future. But it will not succeed | Manar Al Khodari
Among the ashes and the bodies, education goes on – and I’ve seen the kind of help the international community can offer
- Manar Al Khodari is a medical student from Gaza’s Rimal neighbourhood
I am supposed to be in my sixth and final year of medical school at al-Azhar University in Gaza – I was supposed to be called Dr Manar in a couple of months’ time. Instead, my education in Gaza has been put on hold. Israel’s genocidal onslaught has ravaged our home and left me and thousands of others struggling to finish our studies. I endured five months of fleeing and displacement.
In Gaza, our mornings once began with the sound of school bells and the laughter of children chasing each other as they lined up for morning exercises. But now, the mornings are shattered by deafening bombs. Instead of lining up for school, young children stand in lines for drinking water, hoping to survive another day.
Manar Al Khodari is a medical student from Gaza’s Rimal neighbourhood
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