2,000+ Academics Condemn Israel's Attacks on Gaza's Educational Infrastructure
11 April 2024 | The Wire
New Delhi: In an open letter, more than 2,000 academics from North American institutions have denounced Israel’s systematic attacks on the educational life in Gaza.
“As academics, we have watched with horror as Israel has systematically and deliberately attacked universities and schools in Gaza. Our colleagues in Gaza, along with their students and educational infrastructure, have been both directly targeted and destroyed in indiscriminate attacks,” reads the letter.
It further cites Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor report as saying, “[T]hree university presidents have been killed in the Israeli attacks, along with more than 95 university deans and professors […] Meanwhile, 88,000 students have been deprived of receiving their university education […] According to the Palestinian Ministry of Education, 4,327 students have been killed and 7,819 others have been injured during the ongoing attacks, while 231 teachers and administrators have been killed and 756 injured.”