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<h1 class="reader-title">Israeli occupation forces raid Birzeit
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<p>Addameer - Ramallah: Israeli
Occupation Forces raided on
Tuesday morning, 26 March 2019
the campus of Birzeit
University, North of Ramallah
and arrested three students.
Addameer documentation unit
informed that several occupation
soldiers dressed as
civilians,backed by a military
force, broke into the campus and
kidnapped Hamza Abu Qaraa, Udai
Nakhla and Tawfiq Abu Arqoub,
before taking them to the Ofer
Prison. At the moment of his
arrest, Tawfiq abu Arqoub had
been taking refuge inside the
campus since 25 February, after
an attempt to arrest him by the
Palestinian Preventive Security
Service. Tawfiq had been
arrested by the Palestinian
security services three times
between 2013 and 2014. The
occupation raid on Birzeit
University campus and the arrest
of three of its students, today,
is a continuation of the
occupation’s ongoing assault on
Palestinian students,
undermining their educational
life. The Israeli occupation
forces had arrested Tawfiq Abu
Arqoub in May 2015 for nine
months, before releasing him in
February 2016. Then they
arrested him again in February
2017 for a year and released him
in March 2018. As a result of
his repetitive arrests, Tawfiq’s
undergraduate career has
extended for more than seven
years. Addameer condemns the
occupation raid on Birzeit
University campus and the arrest
of three of its students and
asserts, that the assault on
Palestinian academic
institutions by the Israeli
occupation forces is a result of
the widespread culture of
impunity within the occupation
authorities. This is clearly
demonstrated through the
occupation’s repeated violations
of international law, which
expressly provided for the
protection of academic
institutions from military
aggression. Therefore, Addameer
calls on all international
organizations and Contracting
States to assume their
responsibility by taking
concrete and practical steps,
pressuring the occupying state,
in order to ensure respect for
Palestinian educational
institutions and to protect
Palestinian students, as
protected persons under
international law.</p>
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