India, Feb. 10 -- GENEVA - "Today UNICEF is scaling up learning in Gaza in one of the largest emergency learning efforts anywhere in the world. Our Back to Learning programme will expand to include 336,000 children.
"This is not a 'nice to have'. It is an emergency.
"Almost two and a half years of attacks on Gaza's schooling have left an entire generation at risk. Sixty per cent of school-aged children in Gaza currently have no access to in-person learning. More than 90 per cent of schools have been damaged or destroyed. And more than 335,000 children under five are now at risk of severe developmental delays because early childhood services have collapsed.
"Before this war, Palestinians in Gaza had some of the highest literacy rates in t...