Vigil for academics and students killed by Israeli ‘educide’
Date/Time
Date(s) - 28/03/2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Categories
Coventry University Palestine Action Group and the Student Union are organizing a quiet vigil for Palestine on Thursday 28th March @ 12-1pm outside The Hub to honour academics, universities staff and students killed as part of the systematic campaign of educide. Their names will be read and the poetry of Refaat AlAreer will be read.
Israel has been accused of deliberately targeting universities and academics in Gaza as part of a strategy branded “educide”.
Following the controlled demolition of Al-Israa University, Israeli army footage of which was widely shared on social media, every single higher education institution in Gaza is believed to have either been destroyed or severely damaged since the invasion began.
Samia Al-Botmeh, an assistant professor of economics at Birzeit University in the West Bank, told Times Higher Education that the elaborate effort required to destroy large public buildings such as Al-Israa meant that it could only be part of an intentional plan to make Gaza “uninhabitable”.
“The destruction of the education sector is part of this overarching strategy of the destruction of every aspect of services in Gaza that make life there possible,” she said.
Recent figures from Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor indicate that Israeli military action has killed at least 94 university professors in Gaza since the country began its retaliation for Hamas’ 7 October attacks, as well as hundreds of lecturers and thousands of students.
The organisation claimed that Israel had “targeted academic, scientific, and intellectual figures in the Strip in deliberate and specific air raids on their homes without prior notice”.
More information at https://bricup.org.uk/article/educide-israels-remorseless-assault-on-gazas-higher-education/