yalla or nahir taala. here the school bell rang to mark the beginning of another school day, so that hundreds of gazan students went to their classrooms happily and hoping for a future that would fulfill their dreams. the zionist war in the gaza strip did not destroy the schools turned into relatively safe places for palestinian refugees. what caused the palestinian students to be denied from attending the classrooms and stopped from continuing their studies. last year, i should have been in sixth grade, but because of the war, we missed the whole year. now i was supposed to go to the seventh grade, but i missed this year as well. the classes where we were supposed to study and practice reading and writing are full of displaced teenagers who now have to play in the school life, but turned to hard work earlier than their age shows and are the breadwinners of the family. our children of the same age in other countries are studying and learning. we don't study, we just work . we have to do more than we can do