Amid the ruins of Gaza’s universities and shattered libraries, the territory’s intellectual class is being wiped out. Nearly two hundred Palestinian academics, professors, doctors, engineers, and researchers, have been killed during the ongoing genocidal war, many inside their homes or while fulfilling their duties to educate, heal, and rebuild.

Their deaths mark not only a human tragedy but the deliberate dismantling of Gaza’s academic and scientific life. Each scholar lost represents decades of knowledge, mentorship, and hope for a generation that believed in education as resistance. The systematic targeting of those who built the foundations of learning and innovation has left Gaza’s classrooms hollow, its universities scarred beyond recognition.

What is unfolding is not merely the destruction of buildings, but the attempted erasure of a people’s cultural and intellectual identity. The loss of these scholars is a blow to the region’s collective memory, one that words, archives, or surviving students may never fully restore.