Most of Gaza's schools are destroyed and hundreds of thousands of children cannot go back to class

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Bissan Younis looked dejected as she stood outside a cluster of tents surrounded by rubble and debris, a wasteland that is a common sight across the Gaza Strip . The tiny encampment was yet another makeshift school that has no room for her teenage son Kareem.

“Most of the schools are destroyed," she told The Associated Press. "Every school I go to tells me there is no room.”