GAZA (Reuters) -Student Maha Ali was determined to become a journalist one day and report on events in Gaza. Now she and other students have just one ambition: finding food as hunger ravages the Palestinian enclave.

As war rages, she is living among the ruins of Islamic University, a once-bustling educational institution, which like most others in Gaza, has become a shelter for displaced people.

“We have been saying for a long time that we want to live, we want to get educated, we want to travel. Now, we are saying we want to eat,” honours student Ali, 26, said.

Ali is part of a generation of Gazans – from grade school through to university – who say they have been robbed of an education by nearly two years of Israeli air strikes, which have destroyed the enclave’s institutions.

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