  {"id":316035,"date":"2026-03-03T14:09:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=316035"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:39:52","slug":"unrwa-commissioner-general-access-to-education-is-under-attack-in-plain-sight","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-access-to-education-is-under-attack-in-plain-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRWA Commissioner-General: access to education is under attack in plain sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3 March 2026<\/p>\n<p><em>From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, access to education is under attack in plain sight.<\/p>\n<p>Lands and homes have been taken away from Palestinians but not education, considered as a national pride and investment for a better future.<\/p>\n<p>In Gaza, hundreds of thousands of children have been out of formal school since October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>UNRWA is keeping them learning in temporary spaces and online lessons, despite huge obstacles. But they need to get back into the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>In the West Bank, displacement, school closures and daily stresses put 48,000 Palestine Refugee students at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Add UNRWA\u2019s funding crisis and the risk of deep cuts to education programmes by the Agency and others: the risk of a lost generation is real.<\/p>\n<p>UNRWA has made access to education for all Palestine Refugees a priority. To succeed, we count on all our partners and donors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 3 March 2026 From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account. In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, access to education is under attack in plain sight. Lands and homes have been taken away from Palestinians but not education, considered as a national pride and investment for a better future. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-access-to-education-is-under-attack-in-plain-sight\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[6978],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2033,2441,2005,1745,1917],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-316035","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-social-media-post","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-children","document-subject-education-and-culture","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","document-subject-situation-in-the-opt-including-jerusalem","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/316035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/316035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316100,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/316035\/revisions\/316100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=316035"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=316035"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=316035"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=316035"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=316035"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=316035"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=316035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}