The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has condemned continuing attacks on schoolchildren and educational facilities in conflict zones around the world, particularly from Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
In recent weeks, at a girls' school in Afghanistan, two schoolgirls were killed, and another three students and a teacher were injured, while in Gaza, one student traveling to national college entrance exams was killed, and in a separate incident another was injured, in crossfire. The UNICEF Executive Director has thus condemned the attacks on schoolchildren. It is said that children have the right to a safe learning environment at all times, even under the most difficult of circumstances.
