In this photo taken on Sept. 2, 2026, during a visit by Education Minister Rima Karameh to the village of Burj Qalaway in the Bint Jbeil district, children look on at the ruins of a school destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. (Credit: Matthieu Karam/L'Orient-Le Jour)
Aya doesn't know when or where she will return to school. To find out, the 18-year-old would first need to know where she will be living in the coming days. As Israeli bombardments intensify around the strategic Ali Taher hill in the Nabatieh region, her family, originally from the border village of Mais al-Jabal, is preparing to flee Kfar Jouz, where they settled after the so-called truce at the end of June. For three years, Aya’s education has been disrupted by successive displacements."After fleeing Mais al-Jabal at the end of 2023, I took classes remotely. After the 66-day war [September–November 2024], the destroyed school reopened in prefabricated buildings and I returned to in-person classes. When the war resumed in March, we fled again, this time to Maghdoucheh. There, I took my senior year classes remotely, but there...
Aya doesn't know when or where she will return to school. To find out, the 18-year-old would first need to know where she will be living in the coming days. As Israeli bombardments intensify around the strategic Ali Taher hill in the Nabatieh region, her family, originally from the border village of Mais al-Jabal, is preparing to flee Kfar Jouz, where they settled after the so-called truce at the end of June. For three years, Aya’s education has been disrupted by successive displacements."After fleeing Mais al-Jabal at the end of 2023, I took classes remotely. After the 66-day war [September–November 2024], the destroyed school reopened in prefabricated buildings and I returned to in-person classes. When the war resumed in March, we fled again, this time to Maghdoucheh. There, I took my senior year classes remotely, but...
