Palestine: We thank Egypt for registering 800 students from Gaza to take their secondary exams there

The Palestinian Ministry of Education confirmed that the process of registering Gaza students in Egypt is continuing through a specialized team from the Ministry and the Palestinian Embassy in Cairo.

The Ministry explained, in a statement today, that the registration process includes high school students for the year 2024, who have enrolled in the distance education program, repeat students, special studies students (homes), and students who have not completed one or two subjects in the year 2023, who are stranded Palestinian school students. Those currently in Egypt.

The Ministry noted that it had dispatched a specialist to complete all these procedures at the embassy headquarters.

The Ministry reported that 800 students from Gaza have registered to take the high school exam in Egypt according to special arrangements, which will be announced at that time, in addition to approximately 200 students spread across other countries.

The Ministry indicated that it opened 19 schools in the West Bank, in which 11,000 students from Gaza who were abroad enrolled in “distance education,” where male and female teachers, school principals, and educational supervisors volunteered.

The Minister of Education and Higher Education, Amjad Barham, confirmed that the Ministry pays great attention to providing everything that would serve students in Gaza, and alleviate their suffering resulting from the occupation, its continued aggression against them, and the systematic destruction that the Strip witnessed that affected children, school and university students, and educational staff. And the academy.

Barham thanked Egypt and the Palestinian Embassy in Cairo for their cooperation and efforts, and also thanked the male and female teachers from the West Bank who volunteered in their schools that regularly provide education to Gaza students remotely.