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Students speak out following deadly Israeli bombing of university building

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"🇵🇸💢 “We came to rebuild our country, the country they destroyed. Why are they attacking us here too?”: Israel strikes Gaza university twice, killing three Israeli strikes hit the campus of the Islamic University in western Gaza City twice on Sunday, less than four hours apart, killing three university security guards and wounding several others, including students.  “Today, we were studying in class, minding our business, while the professor was explaining. Suddenly, an airstrike hit directly beneath us, a massive explosion,” Mohammed Qandil, an engineering student, told Drop Site’s Abdel Qader Sabbah. Qandil said he was attending a physics lecture when the strike hit directly beneath the classroom. “We came here to learn and get an education. We came to rebuild our country, the country they destroyed and devastated. Why are they attacking us here too?” “All we're asking for is our right to education, nothing more. We don't want anything else. We just want our right to education.” 🎥 @AbdSabbah91" - Source

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Event Notes

Massacre of security guards at the Islamic University of Gaza

Around 10:20 am, an Israeli airstrike targeted the grounds of the Islamic University of Gaza building in west Gaza City.

Around 1:05 pm, a second Israeli airstrike taregeted the university building, this time killing three men in the university security personnel.

Names of the martyrs:

  1. Sami Baroud "Abu Ilyas"
  2. Ashraf Dahlan
  3. Shadi Abu Ataya