School resumes in tents under shadow of Gaza's 'yellow line' |
By Mahmoud Issa and Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA/CAIRO Jan 12 (Reuters) - She spends her lessons in the wintry cold on the floor of a crowded tent, her teacher interrupted by regular gunfire and explosions from Israeli-controlled territory less than 1,000 metres away. But Toulin Al-Hindi, 7, is grateful to be in school at last after more than two years of war.
She is one of some 400 children attending lessons at the makeshift North Educational School, set up in blue plastic tents in the ruins of northern Gaza's community of Beit Lahiya, within eyesight of the "yellow line" held by Israeli forces.
During a recent lesson, more than a dozen girls sat on the floor in two rows in one small tent,........