COGAT Israel Bungkam UNICEF Ungkap Setelah 2,5 Tahun Bantuan Sekolah Akhirnya Masuk Gaza

JAKARTA - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said for the first time in 2.5 years they have managed to send school supplies containing learning materials to the Gaza Strip after being blocked by Israeli authorities.

UNICEF revealed that thousands of supplies, including pencils, exercise books, and wooden cubes for playing, have now entered Gaza.

"In recent days, we have received thousands of recreational equipment, hundreds of school supplies in boxes. We are considering receiving another 2,500 school supplies in the next week, as it has been approved," said UNICEF spokesman James Elder, Tuesday, January 27, quoted from Reuters.

The Gaza Strip is fully controlled by the Israeli government after their military carried out an aggression on the Palestinian territory. Since then, every international aid shipment must be approved by the Israelis through COGAT before it can enter Gaza.

COGAT is the Israeli military body that oversees the flow of aid to Gaza. However, when asked by Reuters about the lack of educational supplies for children for 2.5 years to the Gaza Strip, COGAT chose to be silent.

Children in the Gaza Strip have been subjected to an unprecedented attack on the education system, as well as restrictions on the entry of some aid materials, including school books and pencils, during Israel's military aggression in Gaza since October 2023.

Elder said Israel's actions made teachers have to economize with limited resources, while children tried to study at night in tents without lighting.

During the Israeli aggression as well, many children in Gaza did not get any education at all. Children in Gaza face survival challenges such as finding clean water, on the one hand experiencing malnutrition due to the great humanitarian crisis.

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