The Islamic University of Gaza has taken an important step towards reopening amid the ceasefire that has paused Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave.

The university resumed in-person classes on Saturday for the first time in two years, during which displacement, power cuts, and the destruction of university facilities made only limited attempts at online learning possible.

The gradual return to in-person learning takes place inside buildings damaged by air strikes and partly reduced to rubble, after two years of forced interruption to studies by a conflict that has destroyed the enclave’s educational infrastructure.

“Today is a historic day. We are returning to education despite the tragedy and cruelty left behind by the genocide,” said Islamic University President Asaad Yousef Asaad.

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