More than 17,224 students have also been wounded in the regime’s genocidal war on the Palestinian territory, according to the ministry figures.

In the West Bank, 113 students were killed and 548 injured. About 429 students have also been kidnapped by the regime’s troop in the occupied city.

The Education Ministry released the figure more than a week after the school year officially began, while all schools in the besieged territory shut.

Israel’s military forces have so far destroyed 123 schools and universities in Gaza, according to the Gaza government media office.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which runs around half of Gaza’s schools, warned earlier that “the longer the children stay out of school the more difficult it is for them to catch up on their lost learning and the more prone they are to becoming a lost generation.”

When the regime launched its savage offensive on Gaza almost one year ago, UNRWA transformed its schools into emergency shelters for families forced to flee their homes.

The vast majority of the Gaza’s 2.4 million people have been displaced at least once by Israel’s genocidal war.

The amount of aid being blocked by Israel has increased substantially from 2023, when just 34 percent of food aid was being blocked, the organisations announced in the statement.

Amjad Al Shawa, the director of the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) said in the statement that 100 percent of Gaza’s population is now dependent on aid and the shortages mean people are starving.

“We are overwhelmed [with] these needs and [these] urgent requirements”, Al Shawa added.

The aid organisations that released the statement included Save the Children, ActionAid, Christian Aid and Islamic Relief.

Israel has continued its military onslaught against the besieged enclave following an attack on October 7 last year by Hamas, despite a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.

The offensive has resulted in more than 41,200 Palestinian deaths, mostly women and children, and over 95,400 injuries, according to local health authorities.

The military campaign has turned much of the enclave of 2.3 million people into ruins, leaving most civilians homeless, at risk of famine and prone to disease.

Israel also faces accusations of genocide for its actions in the enclave at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

After 11 months of Israel’s near-total blockade on humanitarian aid, top United Nations experts have warned that Israel is engaged in a “targeted starvation campaign” in the besieged enclave.

Dozens of children have died of malnutrition since the war began in October, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Israeli attacks have also killed hundreds of aid workers in Gaza.

The World Food Program (WFP) has sounded the alarm that 2.2 million Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip are still in “urgent” need of food aid after 11 months of war.

According to stats released by the WFP, 96 percent of the population of Gaza is facing acute food insecurity, with 2.15 million people at crisis levels of hunger or worse, as the Israeli regime is using famine as a weapon of war.

Furthermore, the WFP says almost half a million people in Gaza are in “catastrophic conditions”.

“As of 16 September, more than 55 evacuation orders remain in effect, covering more than 85% of Gaza. The latest evacuation order was issued in northern Gaza on Saturday,” Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said during a news conference on Monday, citing Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Stating that “repeated displacements are also separating families”, Dujarric added it is also “eroding social protection systems, particularly for women and children.”

With Israeli-issued evacuation orders hindering the delivery of aid across Gaza, Dujarric said: “Between 1 and 15 September of the 94 planned humanitarian missions coordinated with the Israeli authorities for northern Gaza, only 37 – or 39%– were facilitated.”

“In southern Gaza, just over 50% of the 243 coordinated humanitarian movements were facilitated,” he continued, adding that OCHA is unable to access northern Gaza for 28 days.

He further stated that “aid convoys are being fired at or otherwise exposed to life-risking conditions, stopped and delayed for hours in combat zones”.

Asked about whether the UN perceives Israel’s ongoing evacuation orders as forced displacement, Dujarric said: “We see it as giving people very little options in order to just stay alive and survive.”

“People need to be protected, whether they move or whether they stay there,” he noted, adding that there “needs to be humanitarian aid” reaching to those in need.

“What we’re seeing is that no place is safe in Gaza.”

Responding to Anadolu’s question on the Ministry of Health in Gaza’s recently published document detailing every Palestinian killed since Oct. 7, Dujarric said “women and children have been bearing the brunt of it.”

He reiterated the call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.

The recently published document includes the names, ages, genders, and identifications of Palestinians killed between Oct. 7 and Aug. 31, highlighting that 60% of the victims are women, children, and the elderly, with the first 14 pages listing those under one year old.

Despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire, Israel has continued its brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip following an attack by Palestinian group Hamas last Oct. 7.

More than 41,000 people, mostly women and children, have since been killed and over 95,000 injured, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the territory amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.

Israel also faces accusations of genocide for its actions in Gaza at the International Court of Justice.