In the overcrowded al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza, a US nonprofit called Scholars Without Borders has constructed a makeshift academic campus dubbed 'University City,' built from wood and metal sheets to serve up to 600 students daily across six lecture halls powered by solar energy. The initiative comes as Israel's military campaign has destroyed or rendered inoperable virtually all of Gaza's higher education institutions, leaving hundreds of thousands of students cut off from formal learning for over two years. For displaced students like those attending the Palestine College of Nursing, the facility represents their first experience of in-person university education — a small but significant restoration of normalcy amid what UN experts have termed the systematic 'scholasticide' of Gaza's academic sector.