Gaza: ‘My students have forgotten what it means to be children’

With schools in Gaza destroyed, one teacher has set up a makeshift facility in a refugee camp so children can still learn, aided by a community in Cork, writes Liz Dunphy

Safaa Elsabe, a teacher and principal, established Al-Anqaa School in the Yarmouk refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Children in tattered clothes, some with amputated limbs, others wearing their father’s shoes, clasp precious copy books as they proudly show their homework.

Although schools have been destroyed across Gaza, Safaa Elsabe, a teacher and principal, established Al-Anqaa School in the Yarmouk refugee camp in northern Gaza.