DEATH TO ZIONISM

Bleeding Gaza Schools
By Motasem Dalloul, IOL Correspondent

Palestinian schoolgirls walk in the rubble of the Sakhnin School, devastated in Israel's latest incursion into Gaza, in Beit Lahiya, northern of Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009.

Feb 15, 2009GAZA CITY — In the bombed-out Gaza Strip, schooling, already hit by a chocking Israeli siege, has become a greater struggle after three weeks of massive bombing and attacks that left dozens of schools in ruins and students too traumatized to learn."We are working hard to find an appropriate building to resume our work, but because of the shortage of buildings and the increase of demand after the war we haven’t found any yet," Mamdouh Salem, headmaster of the American International School in Gaza, told IslamOnline.net.Salem's school stands as an example of dozens of schools, many run by the UNRWA and the private sector, flattened by the Israeli war machine during its recent onslaught.The two-storey school, built on an 8-acre plot overlooking the Mediterranean, is now a mere mound of broken concrete.Even the school's buses were burnt by Israeli fire "with premeditation," Salem says.Striving to get its 220 students back to classes, the school officials approached the UNRWA and the Education Ministry for help."The UNRWA said that all of their schools are busy in both shifts and the Education Ministry allowed us to use three of their big schools in the afternoon shifts," Salem said.

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