The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has blown up Israa University building in southern Gaza on Wednesday, destroying the Graduate Studies and main Bachelor's faculties.

 

 

 

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The university said in a statement received by Roya: "The administration of Israa University condemns the brutal aggression that targeted the educational facilities, the latest being the demolition of the Graduate Studies and main Bachelor's faculties building in the south of Gaza City. This comes after about seventy days of the Zionist army's occupation, using it as a military base for its vehicles and a center for targeting innocent civilians in areas such as Rashid Street, Maghazi, and Zahra. It served as a temporary detention center for interrogating citizens before their transfer."

The Israeli Occupation aggression was not limited to the main building only; it also reached the National Museum, which Israa University has proudly founded as a nationally licensed museum by the Ministry of Antiquities.

It was the first museum on a national level, containing over 3,000 rare artifacts. IOF soldiers and officers looted these artifacts before demolishing the museum building to cover up the evidence of their crime.

The IOF also demolished the buildings of the first and only university hospital in Gaza, and the second in Palestine, along with the medical and engineering laboratories, nursing laboratories, media training studio, the special court hall for the Law College, and graduation halls. All of this was done after looting their valuable contents, which students in various colleges have always used to enrich their scientific research and carry out both their curriculum-based and extracurricular activities.

The cafeteria building was also destroyed. Additionally, IOF aircraft targeted and destroyed the main mosque within the southern campus.