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<h1 class="gmail-single_title">Israeli army blows up university in Gaza after 70 days of converting it into a military barracks</h1>
<p class="gmail-single_date">Thursday 18-January-2024</p>
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<p>GAZA, (PIC)</p>
<p>The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) blew up the building of Al-Isra
University in Gaza after 70 days of occupying it and converting it into a
military barracks and a detention center.</p>
<p>The university administration said in a statement on Thursday, “The
IOF occupied the university building for seventy days, turning it into a
military base and a center for sniping isolated civilians in the areas
of Rashid Street, Al-Mughraqa, and Al-Zahra, as well as a temporary
detention center for interrogating Palestinians, before detonating it.”</p>
<p>Israeli media outlets published a video documenting the moment the
occupation forces detonated the main headquarters of Al-Isra University
in the city of Al-Zahra, south of Gaza City, yesterday.</p>
<p>The university administration condemned, “The barbaric aggression
that targeted the capabilities of students of knowledge, the latest of
which was the destruction of the building of graduate studies and the
main bachelor’s colleges in the south of Gaza City.”</p>
<p>It said, “The aggression was not limited to the main building only,
but also affected the national museum, which Al-Isra University has
always been proud to establish as a national museum licensed by the
Ministry of Antiquities, the first of its kind in the country,
containing more than three thousand rare artifacts.”</p>
<p>The statement pointed out that the IOF soldiers and officers looted
the rare artifacts before demolishing the museum building to cover up
the traces of their crime.</p>
<p>It pointed out that the IOF destroyed the buildings of the first and
only university hospital in the Gaza Strip and the second in Palestine,
as well as the medical and engineering laboratories, nursing
laboratories, media training studio, the special court hall of the
Faculty of Law, and the graduation halls, after looting their valuable
contents that students have always used in various faculties to enrich
their scientific research and carry out their activities.</p>
<p>It continued, “The cafeteria building did not escape the aggression,
as it was leveled to the ground from the first day, and the Israeli
aircraft targeted the main university mosque inside the southern campus
and destroyed it.”</p>
<p>The IOF also targeted the university’s other headquarters, including
the headquarters of intermediate studies “Diploma” located north of the
Gaza Strip and the headquarters of vocational training located in the
Al-Rimal neighborhood, which recently turned into two centers for
displaced persons.</p>
<p>The university administration, whose capabilities were destroyed,
buildings were demolished, and material and cash funds were looted,
stated that this was not its main loss. Rather, a group of its students,
professors, and employees have “ascended as martyrs on the path of
liberating the homeland and achieved the highest ranks of honor with
their martyrdom.”</p>
<p>It clarified that the targeting of educational institutions in the
Gaza Strip during the current aggression comes within an old and
systematic context that has never stopped since the beginning of this
conflict. It pointed out that Israel has “tried to generalize a culture
of ignorance and exclude the Palestinian people from keeping up with the
march of knowledge and civilization, killing scientists and expelling
minds and pillars of society outside Palestine.”</p>
<p>The Government Media Office in Gaza said that during the 100 days of
the aggression on the Gaza Strip, the IOF destroyed 95 schools and
universities completely and 295 schools and universities partially.</p>
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