Human Rights Watch’s report on the widespread destruction of educational centers in Gaza

report Mehr News Agency quoted Al-Mayadin, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Watch in its new report on the war crimes committed by the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip against civilian centers, to the regime’s brutal attacks on educational centers and The universities of Gaza pointed out and announced that the systematic and targeted attacks of the Israeli army against universities and cultural centers destroy the last signs of life in Gaza, and this is another aspect of the crime of genocide that Israel has been carrying out in Gaza since October 7. /p>

The statement of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Watch states that Israel’s continuous military attacks on the Gaza Strip have led to a complete disruption of the educational process in universities and educational centers, but Its dire consequences do not end there. In Israel’s attacks on Gaza, more than 95 university officials and professors were martyred, 68 of whom were full professors. In addition, 88,000 male and female students have been banned from continuing their education in Gaza universities.

According to this statement, according to the first published statistics, out of 6 universities in Gaza, 5 universities were destroyed by the attacks of the Israeli army and 3 universities were completely destroyed. And it is gone. On February 6, the Israeli army targeted Al-Aqsa University with its airstrikes, which caused the complete destruction of two university buildings. After that, “Al-Isra” University was also subjected to direct Israeli bombardment and all its buildings were blown up and the facilities of this university were completely destroyed on January 17 after it had become a military barracks of the Israeli army for more than 2 months.

This human rights organization reported that all buildings, libraries and laboratories and even the mosque of Al-Isra University were destroyed by systematic attacks by Israel and even according to the statement published by The administration of this university took the task of destroying the national museum located in this university, which contained very rare ancient artifacts.

But about Al-Azhar University, according to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Watch report, the main center of this university in Gaza City and its other branch in al-Maghraqa region are completely The effect of the Israeli army’s systematic bombings on October 11 and November 4 and 21 was destroyed. In this context, Quds Azad University in Gaza was also seriously damaged after it was targeted by the Israeli army on October 15, and its branches in northern Gaza were also extensively destroyed.

According to the aforementioned statement, in parallel, the Islamic University in Gaza City was also completely destroyed due to heavy Israeli air strikes on October 11, so that The building of the faculty of information technology, the building of the directorate of social services and education were extensively destroyed, and all their parts, including libraries, laboratories, etc., were destroyed.

In addition to that, the mosque located inside this university was also destroyed by the invaders, which is a gross violation of international laws, which prohibits attacking religious places. According to the report of the International Monetary Fund, the damage to the education sector in the Gaza Strip as a result of the destruction and damage of 70% of its schools and universities is more than 720 million dollars.

According to a statement issued by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Watch a few days ago, the Israeli army carried out many deliberate attacks against academic and scientific figures in the Gaza Strip. Their data and houses were targeted deliberately and without prior warning, and these people were buried under the rubble along with their families.

According to this statement, so far, 17 full professors, 59 scientific figures with doctorate degrees and 18 people with master’s degrees, who were prominent scientific figures in Gaza, were involved in the aggression. They were assassinated by the occupying regime. Of course, the number of graduates who were martyred in the aggression of the Zionist regime during the Gaza war is countless, the people who were the foundation of academic activities in Gaza universities.

Of course, this is only a small part of the terrible crime that the Zionist regime has committed against the higher education department of the Gaza Strip. In addition to books, scientific laboratory equipment has been destroyed among the destroyed buildings.