The Arabs have sold Palestine many times before to its rapist. They still do, cowered by their American protectors (against Quixotic windmill threats) into accepting that the rape victim should be killed to destroy any evidence of the crime.
Just a Trump is running amok with the world, Netanyahu and his ultra-religious barbarians are "taking control" of the entire region of the Levant and the Middle East. Palestine is being erased and world leaders can only complain. The Europeans, who had taken a lead in trying to resolve the Gaza impasse, are now sandwiched between an aggressive Russia in the east and an aggressive America in the West. Trump is in cahoots with Putin to dismantle the EU and divide it up between themselves.
Universities produce future leaders and administrators. Destroying a university is a significant part of a policy of genocide, as it precludes the regeneration of the country following its erasure.
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Israeli assault on Palestinian university wounds dozens in West Bank raid
Al Jazeera Staff
Tue, January 6, 2026
Dozens of people were wounded after Israel’s army opened fire with live rounds, sound grenades, and tear gas at a prominent university in the occupied West Bank as students sat in classrooms and roamed the campus.
Israeli soldiers smashed open the university’s gates as panicked students and staff watched in shock on Tuesday.
Three of the injured were shot in the legs, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Five people suffered tear gas inhalation, and three were hit by flying shrapnel.
“I handed back my exam paper empty, left my faculty building, and saw them in front of me. They threw sound grenades so I tried to escape and saw some teachers trying to talk to them. Then they shot live fire,” law student Youssef Sharawneh told Al Jazeera.
Mustafa Rimawi, an engineering student, denounced the Israeli attack by troops. “These days Palestinian people don’t have rights. They attack Gaza and the West Bank – universities and homes alike. Even mosques are not safe,” he said.
In a statement, Birzeit University said the attack “constitutes a flagrant and deliberate violation of the sanctity of universities and educational institutions”, the official Wafa news agency reported.
“Storming the campus in broad daylight and transforming it into a military zone reflects a systematic policy aimed at intimidating students, undermining their right to education, and targeting Palestinian consciousness,” it said.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said 11 people arrived at the Istishari Arab Hospital in Ramallah for treatment.
The Israeli raid followed a student event in solidarity with thousands of Palestinian prisoners held incommunicado in Israeli jails, and coincided with a screening of the film “Hind Rajab”, a six-year-old girl shot dead by troops during the genocidal war on Gaza.
Israeli forces stormed the campus shortly before the screening. The Israeli army said it targeted a “gathering in support of terrorism” at the university.
‘Started shooting’
Reporting from Birzeit University, Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim said in total 41 people were wounded in the attack with 11 hospitalised.
“It was unprecedented. People are telling us they’ve never seen anything like it. We are talking about the first time for an Israeli raid inside the campus where the students are taking their classes, and while the Israeli forces started shooting live ammunition, not just tear gas,” Ibrahim said.
“[For Palestinians] living under occupation, with limited options with so many restrictions, they rely on education to have jobs, to have a life, to sustain their families. But now we’re looking at a state of worry among many students. No place is immune from Israeli assaults.”
Palestine’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education condemned the violent incursion and said the attack disregarded all international norms and conventions when it comes to education facilities.
The assault will not “break the will of Palestinian students or staff”, the ministry said, calling on the International Association of Universities, the Association of Arab Universities, and international human rights organisations to denounce the Israeli shooting.
‘Nail in the coffin’
Meanwhile, Israel on Tuesday cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a controversial settlement project near East Jerusalem that would effectively cut the occupied West Bank into two, according to a government tender.
A tender seeking bids from developers clears the way to begin construction of the E1 project. The anti-settlement monitoring group Peace Now first reported the tender. Yoni Mizrahi, who runs the group’s settlement watch division, said initial work could begin within the month.
Settlement development in E1, an open tract of land east of Jerusalem, has been under consideration for more than two decades, but was frozen because of US pressure during previous administrations.
The international community overwhelmingly considers Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank to be illegal and an obstacle to peace.
The E1 project is especially contentious because it runs from the outskirts of Jerusalem deep into the occupied West Bank. Critics say it would prevent the establishment of a contiguous Palestinian state in the territory.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right politician who oversees settlement policy, has long pushed for the plan to become a reality.
“The Palestinian state is being erased from the table not with slogans but with actions,” Smotrich said in August when Israel gave final approval to the plan. “Every settlement, every neighbourhood, every housing unit is another nail in the coffin of this dangerous idea.”
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