![Medical, nursing, and engineering students attend their first classes in the university’s remaining intact classrooms following the ceasefire after Israel’s two-year-long attacks on the Gaza Strip on November 29, 2025. [Khames Alrefi - Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AA-20251129-39843094-39843070-INPERSON_HIGHER_EDUCATION_HAS_PARTIALLY_RESUMED_AFTER_TWO_YEARS_IN_GAZA-1.jpg)
The Islamic University of Gaza has begun the first steps toward a gradual return to in-person learning, inside buildings damaged by airstrikes and partly reduced to rubble, after two years of forced interruption from their studies due to the Israeli genocide that destroyed the enclave’s educational infrastructure, Anadolu reports. Within partially restored, cracked walls, hundreds of students have returned to classrooms in a scene that reflects the determination of Gazans to reclaim life and education despite the scars of war. On Saturday, the Islamic University resumed its first day of face-to-face instruction after the war suspended the educational process for two years, during which limited attempts at online learning were possible amid displacement, power outages and the destruction of university […]
