EL- ARISH, Oct 5 — Palestinian teacher Hadeel Zourob watches dozens of displaced Gazan children file into the region’s only Palestinian school, a place she built after war drove them from their homes.
The students are among hundreds of Palestinian children uprooted by the Israel-Hamas war who now live in El-Arish, a coastal city of dusty streets and low-rise apartments located 44 kilometres (27 miles) from the Gaza border.
“They fled to Egypt and found themselves here without schools or education,” Zourob, herself displaced by the war in Gaza, told AFP.
“So I decided to establish an educational centre for them.”
Zourob, in her thirties, fled Gaza with her family six months after the war began in October 2023 after Hamas’s attack against Israel and the massive Israeli offensive in response.
