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Israa University (also Isra University, al-Israa University or al-Isra University) was a university in the Gaza Strip created in 2014. [1] Its main building was occupied for 70 days and physically destroyed by explosives on 17 January 2024 by Israeli armed forces, during the Israel–Hamas war.
The West Bank and Gaza together had 14 universities, an open university for distance learning, 18 university colleges and 20 community colleges. All universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces. See "Attacks on schools during the Israeli invasion of Gaza" for more.
Abdallah Abujaser, a 21-year-old clinical psychology student at Israa University, said he was disturbed to hear that hundreds of students in the U.S. had been arrested. “It is our right to ...
Israa University in Al-Zahra, south of Gaza City, was destroyed by the Israeli military in January 2024. [59] UNOCHA reported that the IDF had been using the campus as an "an ad hoc detention facility for interrogating Palestinian detainees before their transfer to an unknown location". [ 60 ]
The university has said the “attack” came weeks after Israeli forces occupied the building. The war has displaced some 85% of Gaza’s residents, with hundreds of thousands packing U.N.-run ...
Class destroyed: A look at what has become of Gaza's revered universities. Chantal Da Silva and Yasmine Salam and Matthew Mulligan and Bianca Britton. Updated April 5, 2024 at 12:12 AM.
Israa University stated that occupying forces took over 3,000 artifacts from its museum prior to the university building's destruction. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] In May, the IDF Military Police opened an investigation into video footage showing IDF soldiers burning books , including a Quran in a mosque in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip and books at ...
The military said the tunnel network ran near the Turkish Hospital in central Gaza and Israa University in Gaza City. It released photos and video footage it said was taken inside the tunnels ...