Israeli forces did not specify the reason for storming the university campus apart from saying that its forces shot a “wanted Palestinian”. Three out of five students abducted by the Israeli security forces from the university were later released.
Israel’s crackdown on Palestinian students has intensified in recent months and is part of a broader effort to depolitize the universities and break the strong link they have with the struggle for national liberation
Under the illegal Israeli occupation, Palestinians are systematically denied their human right to education and university students and professors are targeted and criminalized
Children and university students are among some of the 15 Palestinians that were abducted by Israeli soldiers
As many as 34 Palestinians were arrested in early morning raids on Tuesday. Many of them were current and former students of Birzeit university and several are members of the student council