About 200 000 children in Gaza returned to school on Saturday for the first time since the Israelite attack, many having lost members of their family, their home, and their sense of security. The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) reopened all its 221 schools which educated about 200 000 Palestinians in the territory. As the hundreds of children were slowly brought to order it soon became clear that many of them bore the unseen wounds of the war, in which more than 1 330 Palestinians were killed and nearly ⅓ of them are children.
I am quite happy that the children in Gaza are back to school. Even though that is not my home country but seeing the fact that these children can go back to school is quite good already. At least this is one step made to help the people in Gaza. These children actually did not do anything wrong and they are not involved in the war. So, if nothing was done to help these children, it’s really unfair.
Question:
1. How do you feel about these Palestinian children going back to school?
2. What else could be done to help these Palestinian children?
Source: Krauss, Joseph. “Gaza children go back to school.” The Jakarta Post. 25 January 2009. Page 1. Vol 26.
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Yes!! now they can go back to school again!!
Gaza children back to school is a really good news. It shows that the peace in Gaza is starting appears. But, they must be feel really weird when they back to school, they lost their family m embers and maybe they lost their part of body. Another way to make the peace in Gaza is help them in supplies and support them to be success in their life.
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