Full Analysis Summary
Gaza tent school reopening
After the October Israel-Hamas ceasefire, children in Gaza City began returning to classes in UNICEF-run makeshift tent classrooms at the ruined Lulwa Abdel Wahab al‑Qatami School in Tel al‑Hawa.
The building was hit in January 2024 and later used as a shelter for displaced families.
The tent school is led by a principal appointed in mid-November and serves roughly 1,100 boys and girls across three shifts.
Boys and girls attend on alternating days as an improvised rhythm to regain routine after nearly two years without regular schooling.
These tents are a temporary, crowded substitute for the original building and are intended to bring displaced pupils back into some form of organised learning.
Coverage Differences
Emphasis/Detail
lovin.co (Other) emphasises operational details of the new tent school — naming the principal, the number of pupils (about 1,100), the three‑shift schedule and alternating days — while Balkanweb (Other) and Arise News (African) foreground the ruined school building and its status as a shelter after being struck in January 2024. KOHA.net (Other) similarly notes the building was hit and that its courtyard sheltered displaced families, but places more emphasis on the tents’ conditions.
Tent classroom conditions
Classroom conditions are stark: tents are noisy, cramped and only permit limited lessons focused on basics such as Arabic, English, maths and science rather than the full curriculum.
Teachers are improvising with boards and running three short daily shifts to reach as many pupils as possible.
UNICEF and staff warn the tents lack reliable electricity and internet and face shortages of basic supplies.
Many children have fallen years behind because of the disruption, including setbacks from the COVID pandemic.
Coverage Differences
Tone/Narrative
All sources describe cramped, basic classes, but the emphasis differs: Arise News (African) highlights teachers "writing basic lessons on improvised boards" and frames the tents as a "fragile but important step toward normalcy," Balkanweb (Other) stresses the move away from the full curriculum to basics, and KOHA.net (Other) bluntly calls the tents "noisy and cramped." lovin.co (Other) adds UNICEF’s warnings about electricity, internet and supply shortages and the long learning gaps some children face.
Schooling after conflict
Children and teachers describe relief, trauma and fragile hope.
Teenagers such as 14-year-old Naeem al-Asmaar, who lost his mother in an airstrike, and ninth-grader Rital Alaa Harb, whose studies were severely disrupted and who hopes to become a dentist, say returning to lessons 'matters' and helps restore a sense of routine.
Sources present these personal accounts as evidence of the psychological and social importance of schooling even under dire material constraints.
Coverage Differences
Tone/Personal Focus
lovin.co (Other) and KOHA.net (Other) foreground students’ relief and quotes of hope (lovin.co: "relief and hope"; KOHA.net: Naeem saying being back "matters"), while Balkanweb (Other) explicitly notes personal losses (Naeem "lost his mother in an airstrike") to underline trauma. Arise News (African) frames the return to class as restoring "some normalcy," emphasising the emotional benefit amid widespread bereavement and displacement.
Education and humanitarian collapse
The tent reopening sits within a larger humanitarian and educational collapse.
UNICEF says more than 97% of Gaza’s schools were damaged or destroyed and most of the Strip’s 658,000 school-age children have had little or no formal education for nearly two years.
Several sources say the original Lulwa building was struck by Israeli air strikes in January 2024 and later served as a shelter.
Some reporting notes the Israeli military has accused Hamas of using civilian infrastructure, including schools, for operations.
Outlets say that accusation has rarely been accompanied by public, hard evidence.
Reporting emphasizes the scale of destruction, the short-term relief of tents, and the long road back to meaningful education.
Coverage Differences
Narrative/Attribution
Balkanweb (Other) and KOHA.net (Other) explicitly report that "The Israeli military has repeatedly accused Hamas of using civilian infrastructure" and note the lack of clear evidence, framing the accusation as contested; Arise News (African) and lovin.co (Other) concentrate more on UNICEF’s statistics and humanitarian impacts (damage rates, displacement, children out of school, and multi‑year learning loss). That split shows some outlets foregrounding blame narratives and others foregrounding humanitarian scale and recovery work.