Edinburgh – Saba:
A group of students at the University of Glasgow, Scotland's largest university, occupied a university building on Wednesday, vowing not to leave until the university commits to cutting all ties with the arms industry and imposes an academic boycott on Israel.
The newspaper The National* reported that this protest is part of an ongoing student campaign organized by the Justice for Palestine Society at the University of Glasgow (GUJP). The group asserts that the university’s investments of £6.8 million (approximately $8.3 million) in arms companies like BAE Systems make it complicit in war crimes, including genocide in Palestine. This is particularly poignant after the killing of university graduate Dima Al-Haj and her six-month-old child.
According to the newspaper, three students at the university are continuing a hunger strike to increase pressure on the university administration, demanding immediate action to sever ties with the arms industry and Israel.
One of the students participating in the strike said, "We have tried all other methods, and this extreme form of protest is all that remains for us," emphasizing that this action is an expression of solidarity with the Palestinian people in the face of ongoing genocide.
Another student added, "The university has shown that it is happy to be complicit in the death and destruction of thousands of Palestinian lives, so we decided to bring the consequences of its decisions to its doorstep."
The Israeli enemy resumed its criminal aggression on the Gaza Strip at dawn on Tuesday, resulting in hundreds of martyrs and injuries by Wednesday.
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