IDF raids West Bank’s Birzeit University, says it aimed to disrupt pro-terror gathering |
Israeli forces clashed Tuesday with students during a raid at Birzeit University, north of Ramallah in the West Bank, in what the military said was an operation aimed at disrupting a pro-terror gathering.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said 11 students were hospitalized, including five with bullet wounds. No troops were reported injured.
WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, reported that Israeli forces broke into campus buildings and seized property belonging to a Hamas-affiliated student bloc.
The IDF said the raid was prompted by intelligence indicating that a “gathering in support of terrorism” was expected to take place on campus.
According to the military, IDF troops and Border Police officers entered the university area as the gathering began, used crowd-dispersal measures and fired warning shots only, eventually dispersing the crowd.
The IDF said that later, an additional violent disturbance developed involving hundreds of suspects, during which stones and rocks were thrown from rooftops toward Israeli forces, posing what it described as an immediate threat. Troops responded with additional crowd-control measures and live fire directed at “central violent instigators.”
The army vowed it would continue to act decisively and would not allow incitement to terrorism against Israeli citizens.
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