Children in Gaza risk becoming 'lost generation' if school not restarted soon, UN says

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza are on the verge of becoming a "lost generation" unless school is quickly restarted, the United Nations warned on Friday. 

“This is the third year that there has been no school,” Edouard Beigbeder, regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, at the UN International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef), told AFP. 

He added that Unicef has only been able to facilitate schooling for one-sixth of children in Gaza in temporary “learning centres".

Israel destroyed about 85 percent of Gaza's schools or made them unusable in its genocide against the Palestinians. 

“If we don’t start a real transition for all children in February, we will enter a fourth year. And then we can talk about a lost generation," he added.