At least 41 Palestinian students were wounded when the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed the campus of Birzeit University in the northern West Bank governorate of Ramallah and al-Bireh on Tuesday, January 6.

While some of the wounded students sustained injuries after being shot at with live ammunition, others suffocated from tear gas bombs.

Meanwhile, local news network Alersal reported that Palestinian journalists Kareem Khamayeseh and Mutasem Saqf al-Hait were subjected to physical assault by Israeli soldiers during the raid.

The incident marks yet another brutal attack on the academic institution, which – alongside other universities across the West Bank – has been subjected to multiple previous onslaughts since October 7, 2023.

Moreover, the attack comes as part of a broader crackdown campaign on the Palestinian students’ movement and educational sector as a whole known as “scholasticide”. This strategy has become more evident throughout Israel’s two-year genocide in the Gaza Strip. Scholars argue that Israel has implemented scholasticide through the targeted killing or detention of educational staff and students, the physical destruction of educational facilities; and the systematic disruption of educational processes.

According to a recent statement released by the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education, 7,903 students and educational staff were killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank in 2025.

The ministry added that 11,469 others were wounded that same year, which also saw the arrest of 204 students in the West Bank.

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