A boy stands along a hallway balcony at a make-shift camp for people displaced by conflict at a school run by the UNRWA in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. AFP
The UN's cultural agency UNESCO cited a study by the Global Coalition for Protecting Education from Attack, of which it is a member.
It said, "6,000 attacks against students, professionals, and educational institutions, including 1,000 cases of military use of these institutions, were recorded worldwide in 2022-2023 -- an average of eight per day".
"This represents a 20-percent increase on the previous two years".
These attacks were "much more frequent in countries currently experiencing armed conflict, foremost among them Myanmar, the Middle East and Gaza in particular, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Ukraine and Yemen," it added.
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