GENEVA :  Schools should be “zones of peace”, the UN children’s agency said, adding that pupils needed to be allowed to study without risking death or injury. UNICEF spokesman Christophe Boulierac says there were at least 68 attacks on schools in Syria in 2014. “Attacks on schools, teachers and students are further horrific reminders of the terrible price Syria’s children are paying in a crisis approaching its fifth year,” UNICEF’s representative in Syria Hanaa Singer said in statement.

UNICEF estimates that because of the danger and displacement of the four-year war in Syriamore than 1.3 million Syrian children are not attending schools. Syrian Arab country located in Western Asia, borderingLebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.