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Palestinian Education Ministry: Over 20,000 Students and Teachers Killed in Three Years of Conflict

Palestine’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education said in a report released on the 7th that Israeli military operations have killed more than 20,000 students and school staff across the Palestinian education system in the three years since the latest round of the Israel-Palestinian conflict began on October 7, 2023.

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The figure is a cumulative institutional count spanning the entire Palestinian education system, not a single-incident toll, which makes it a durable reference point rather than a one-off headline. Because it comes from a ministry within the affected system rather than an independent monitor, it is likely to be contested and cited in parallel by different parties, shaping how the war's human cost is framed. The open question is whether any external body corroborates or revises the number, and whether education-sector losses gain separate traction in humanitarian and reconstruction discussions.

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