{"id":498607,"date":"2026-01-27T08:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/unicef-plans-to-increase-access-to-education-for-children-in-gaza-by-150-this-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:16:14","slug":"unicef-plans-to-increase-access-to-education-for-children-in-gaza-by-150-this-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/unicef-plans-to-increase-access-to-education-for-children-in-gaza-by-150-this-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF plans to increase access to education for children in Gaza by 150% this 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF<\/a>) plans to increase access to in-person education for Gaza children by 150% in 2026, going from 135,400 students enrolled to 336,000, spokesman James Elder announced this Tuesday at a press conference.\n\nUNICEF’s source warned that, since the beginning of the war in October 2023, 700,000 school-age children have been excluded from formal education in Gaza, when “before the conflict” it was “one of the places with the highest literacy rate”.\n\nUNICEF learning spaces will also provide washbasins and places to wash hands, basic services “that many children lack”, she stressed.\n\n\n

You can also read:<\/strong> Activists ask Parliament to approve fire law to have a “Chile without ashes”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe spokesperson highlighted that the cost of schooling a child in Gaza will be just $280 (237 euros) per year, which totals $86 million (73 million euros) needed to achieve access to education for those 336,000 children between the ages of five and 18.\n\nThis program, he clarified, will be carried out in collaboration with the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) and the Ministry of Education of the Palestinian National Authority.\n\nElder explained that a large part of the classes will be given in tents, but also in damaged buildings that are not dangerous, since more than 90% of the schools have been damaged or destroyed.\n\nThe classes will be taught by professors, but also volunteers who are receiving basic training.\n\n“This is a bridge, not a substitute for the total reconstruction of Gaza’s schools that allows every child to return to formal education in a classroom,” he emphasized.\n\nThese teaching centers will be concentrated in the center and south of the Strip due to the complications that exist in the north because of the so-called “yellow line”, where the murders and attacks on children continue, denounced Elder.\n\nMore than a hundred children have died under Israeli attacks since the ceasefire, UNICEF Deputy Director Ted Chaiban warned on Monday.\n\nThe agency will also provide a total of up to 11,000 game and school supply ‘kits’ by the end of this week and plans to distribute another 7,000 in the coming weeks.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) plans to increase access to in-person education for Gaza children by 150% in 2026, going from 135,400 students enrolled to 336,000, spokesman James Elder announced this Tuesday at a press conference. UNICEF’s source warned that, since the beginning of the war in October 2023, 700,000 school-age children have been excluded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25I3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}