Gaza's Saba Rabah tops Palestine exams amid war, displacement
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- Saba Rabah, a Gaza student, ranked first in Palestine's national high school exams despite Israel's war killing her father and displacing her family.
- Rabah prepared for the exams by studying through ongoing Israeli bombings, according to the report published July 27, 2026.
Why it matters: A top national exam finish by a displaced Palestinian student whose father was killed in the war underscores the human stakes of continued bombardment — students are sitting for country-wide exams under active conflict, with Gaza's education system grinding on amid mass displacement.
