Shakir Auda, sitting in a wheelchair,takes a rest during a break in the Beit Loliya Boys Elementary School in Gaza City on January 24, 2009. Some 200,000 Gaza children returned to school for the first time since Israel's offensive. [Xinhua]

A girl searches for useful books in a destroyed building of Khalil AL-Nubani School in Gaza City on January 24, 2009. Some 200,000 Gaza children returned to school for the first time since Israel's offensive. [Xinhua]