Hamas urges student protests to oppose US support for Israel
On Wednesday, Khaled Mashal, a prominent Hamas leader, urged university students globally to start their protests to call for an end to US and international support for Israel, which is still attacking Gaza and conducting a military operation in the West Bank.
At a conference in Istanbul to remember the burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque in 1969, Khaled Mashal, the former head of Hamas’s political bureau and current leader of its diaspora office, stated “As the academic year begins and the first anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation approaches on Oct. 7 a message need to be sent to Washington and the international community to halt the aggression on Gaza.”
Mashal urged the world to start taking steps to support Gaza saying “Don’t leave Gaza alone.”
On April 18 students from Colombia University, US staged a protest in support of Palestine and demanded the university stop officials to stop funding Israel and supporting the genocide in Gaza.
Later, this student movement reaches more US and European institutions, including those in France, Germany, Italy, Britain, and Canada.
“The ongoing situation requires an open struggle, Israel is openly fighting us and we will openly oppose them,” the leader of Hamas said speaking about the ongoing events in the northern occupied West Bank and the Israeli major military operation.
The Israeli army began a major military operation in the northern West Bank on Wednesday, the largest in two decades. Raids were conducted in the governorates of Nablus, Tulkarem, Jenin, and Tubas as well as other northern areas of the occupied territories.
According to Palestinian sources, since October 7 over 40,500 Palestinians, mainly women and children, have been killed in the Gaza strip and 660 Palestinians have died whereas, approximately 5,400 have been injured in the occupied West Bank.
