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GAZA, (PIC)-- Official Palestinian statistics stated that the rate of illiteracy among the Palestinians throughout their occupied lands dropped to 4.7 percent and that the Gaza Strip has the lowest rate.
Director of the Palestinian bureau of statistics in Gaza Ola Awad said on Friday on the occasion of the international literacy day which falls on the 8 September that in the Palestinian territories, there are about 117, 000 illiterate persons at age 15 and over.
Awad noted that the illiteracy rate in occupied Palestine is one of the lowest in the world.
Illiteracy rate in Palestine drops to 4. 7 percent
Director of the Palestinian bureau of statistics in Gaza Ola Awad said on Friday on the occasion of the international literacy day which falls on the 8 September that in the Palestinian territories, there are about 117, 000 illiterate persons at age 15 and over.
Awad noted that the illiteracy rate in occupied Palestine is one of the lowest in the world.
Illiteracy rate in Palestine drops to 4. 7 percent