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Displaced teachers establish 'tent school' for students in Rafah

Learners are seen in a classroom at a tent school in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on April 30, 2024. [Xinhua]

Now being displaced to the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah, Nihad Badreia, a Palestinian teacher, established a 'tent school' for about 600 school-age children living in a refugee camp, as the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict has deprived students of their studies for nearly seven months.

"It's too hard for our students to continue education due to the war. They also cannot meet their classmates, which would have affected their psychological states negatively," said Badreia.

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