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Sunday 01 Feb 2015 - 20:35 Makkah mean time-12-4-1436  Gaza (IINA) – A report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has documented the "material, human and educational damage" sustained by Gaza's higher education institutions during Israel's assault last summer.
University World News, an online publication that reports higher education news from a global perspective, said the UN agency concluded that "higher education institutions in Gaza were directly targeted during the hostilities."
UNESCO stated that Israel's "failure to treat learning environments as safe spaces and protect universities from attack, constituted "a serious violation of the right to education and is prohibited under international law."
UNESCO said it used primary data, questionnaires, and interviews with researchers, conducted field visits to 26 higher education institutions in the Gaza Strip. According to the report, "staff and students suffered heavy casualties during the conflict, sustaining loss of life and serious injuries."
Israeli forces killed 421 students and injured other 1,128 during the so-called 'Operation Protective Edge'. In what UNESCO calls a "shocking statistic", student deaths represented 27.4% of the total civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip. The majority of students killed in the conflict were hit by shelling.
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