The Israeli Army Killed 7903 Students and Educational Staff and Injured 11469 During 2025

Ramallah/ Awad Al-Rajoub/

The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education announced on Wednesday that the Israeli army killed 7,903 students and educational staff in schools and universities, and injured 11,469 others, during 2025.

This came in a statement issued by the ministry, documenting the toll of Israeli violations against educational institutions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, from the beginning of the current year until December 31.

The ministry clarified that the toll of fatalities among school students reached 6,910, the majority in Gaza Strip, with 6,876 male and female students, in addition to 34 in the West Bank.

The number of injured school students during the same period reached 9,138, including 8,846 in Gaza, and 292 in the West Bank.

On the higher education front, Israel killed 578 university students (574 in Gaza and 4 in the West Bank), while injuring more than 1,419 others with varying injuries, and arrested 204 students in the West Bank.

The educational and academic staff were not spared from targeting, where the Israeli army killed 302 teachers and school administrators in Gaza and injured 658 others, and killed two, wounded 7, and arrested 30 others in the West Bank.

The death toll included 111 academics and workers in the sector's universities, in addition to injuring 247 others, while the ministry recorded the arrest of 18 academics from West Bank universities, and 120 students from its schools.

On October 8, 2023, Israel began a genocide in Gaza that lasted two years, with its victims' toll exceeding 71,000 killed and 171,000 injured Palestinians, alongside massive destruction that affected 90% of the civilian infrastructure, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about 70 billion dollars.

Since the start of the genocide war in Gaza, the Israeli army and settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, killed more than 1,104 Palestinians, injured about 11,000, in addition to arresting more than 21,000.