The Education4Gaza initiative was started by a group of Palestinians from Khan Younès who have been known since the 2000s to activists, especially in France, who traveled to Gaza on civilian solidarity missions.
Faced with the deliberate and systematic destruction of all educational facilities in Gaza, our friends have been running makeshift schools in tents amid the ruins since last fall, because for them education is as vital as bread and water. Starting with around 50 students, this initiative now brings together, thanks to the support of donors, more than a thousand children aged 5 to 15, with around 30 teachers who teach the Palestinian school curriculum every day from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., to groups of 20 or 30 children.
As the situation worsens and displaced people arrive from all over, many other children are waiting to join them. The day begins with a meal so that the children can satisfy their hunger and concentrate on their studies. The students and children also receive psychological support to help them cope with the trauma they experience on a daily basis.
The group has just been forcibly displaced for the umpteenth time from Khan Younès to be crammed into a camp in Mawassi by the sea, many of them without even a tent, while bombs continue to rain down, claiming more and more lives every day.
But come what may, our friends are continuing to hold classes, as this is a way for them to keep going!
There will be a Benefit Event for Education4Gaza in Berlin on Saturday, January 17th 2026
