Students in Gaza back to their schools with the start of the new schoolyear. (WAFA Images / Rafi Malh) 

RAMALLAH, August 29, 2018 (WAFA) – About 1,300,000 Palestinian students Wednesday morning went to their schools throughout the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip with the start of the new schoolyear.

Some of these students will be studying in schools run by the Palestinian Ministry of Education in Qatar, Romania and Bulgaria that were opened to serve children of the Palestinian community in these countries. Another 830,000 students will be studying in public schools and around 100,000 in schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

The total number of schools in Palestine is 3030, with 2212 of them are government-run, divided into 1811 schools in the West Bank and 401 in Gaza, while there are 451 private schools, 389 of which are in the West Bank. UNRWA schools are 377 while kindergartens amount to 1945.

K.T./M.K.