Rebuilding Gaza: The French Academy of Sciences emphasizes the importance of schools and universities

The devastation of Gaza and the fate of its inhabitants can only provoke revulsion and condemnation. The systematic dismantling of infrastructure condemns Gazans to a life of wandering and extinguishes all hope. The French Academy of Sciences emphasizes that destroying schools, training centers and universities, and killing teachers are powerful and, tragically, very effective ways of denying the population any prospect of a future. Education is essential to the development of well-balanced human beings, who are masters of their own destiny and attentive to the well-being of others. It is an indispensable condition for peace.

At a time when the reconstruction of Gaza is being considered, the construction of schools and universities - institutions that provide the conditions necessary for new generations to find their place and contribute to regional stability - represents a major challenge. This effort must go hand in hand with ensuring the training and recruitment of teachers as soon as possible. These objectives cannot be achieved without enabling the mobility of Gazans to go elsewhere to acquire the necessary skills, and foreign collaborators coming to lend a hand in the territory.

It is in this context that the French Academy of Sciences is calling on other national academies to engage actively, so that the reconstruction of an educational and environment can proceed free from political pressure.
 

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