Gaza without education for the third year, and illiteracy threatens primary stage students.

If it weren't for the war, the girl "Nay" would be sitting in a first-grade classroom, but today she is a displaced person living in a tent with her family of four in the city of Deir al-Balah in the middle of the Gaza Strip. Nay Al-Masri (6 years old) knows nothing about school except that it is a "shelter" where she spent months in the city of Rafah in the south of the Strip when she and her family were displaced in the first week of the outbreak of the Israeli war on October 7, 2023, from their home in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north, and they were forced to leave the city on the eve of its invasion towards Deir al-Balah.

At that time, Nay was four years old, and due to the consequences of the war and displacement, her mother, Nermin Yahya (27 years old), told Al Jazeera Net that she did not have the opportunity to enroll her in kindergarten to learn the basics of reading and writing. An unknown fate awaits, and schools in the occupied Palestinian territories are about to open their doors for the new school year, while students in Gaza face an unknown educational fate for the third consecutive year of halted educational progress.

Nermin looks at her daughter Nay and says with sorrow, "I don't know when I will see Nay in a school uniform standing in the morning line listening to the school bell instead of the sounds of rocket and bomb explosions." The mother's attempts to teach her daughter to hold a pencil and to teach her numbers and letters have failed.