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(AFP)
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced this week that following the start of the ceasefire in Gaza, it was reopening some schools in the territory, with children gradually returning to classes.
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said on X Tuesday that more than 25,000 school children had already joined the agency's "temporary learning spaces", while some 300,000 would follow online classes.
At Al Hassaina school in western Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday, classes had just resumed despite the shortage of available classrooms.
During the two-year war between Israel and Hamas, Al Hassaina, like many other UNRWA facilities throughout the territory, became a shelter for dozens of displaced families.
Their presence was still visible in the lines of laundry strung across the building's three floors.
As classes began, about 50 girls crammed into a single classroom, sitting on the floor with no desks or chairs.
They responded enthusiastically to the teacher's questions and eagerly copied the lesson from the blackboard into their notebooks, happy to be back in school after two years.
