Hundreds of thousands of students in Gaza are preparing to sit secondary school exams next month in tents, partially destroyed buildings and displacement centres, at a time when nearly all of the territory's educational facilities have been rendered inoperable.
The Tawjihi — the official secondary school examination taken across the Palestinian territories and Jordan — is scheduled to run from 20 June to 8 July. Around 658,000 school-age children have been without in-person education for more than two consecutive years.
