By the time Sharifa Aldremly’s family arrived in Rafah last December, her children had been without school for nearly three months. Israel had bombed their Gaza City home two days into the military’s assault on the besieged Strip, forcing them to take shelter in a hospital for a grueling month. Once that hospital came under siege, the family joined an exodus of doctors, patients, and displaced people. A bombing of their crowded apartment building in Al-Nuseirat camp, followed by Israeli evacuation orders, sent them fleeing once again.
In Nuseirat, Aldremly had struggled to find a school for her children. After her family found relative safety in Rafah, which is the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, she decided to take matters into her own hands.
“I used to spend at least three hours a day teaching my children,” she told The Intercept, juggling their lessons alongside domestic tasks, like cooking and…