Palestinian refugees in Rafah wrote messages of thanks on tents and placards over the weekend to students who have been demonstrating for several days on America’s top campuses and are demanding a truce. iu the War in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians wrote on Saturday to the young Americans, with green paint, on the tents where they live in this city located on the border with Egypt, “Thank you, students in solidarity with (the) Gaza Strip” . Your message reached us and they made placards asking for their right to education to be restored, reports News.ro.
“Thank you to the students from (University) Columbia,” they wrote. Also, several children held placards demanding an end to the bloodshed and the war, so that they can return to school.
Columbia University is the one that started this movement, ten days ago, which then spread to Harvard, Yale, NYU, Cambridge, Princeton and Berkeley universities, and then to other universities as well, to Throughout the country.
“And we support these students to put an end to the repression,” said a refugee.
Nearly 200 pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested on Saturday at three American campuses as police evacuated camps in a student movement that continues to expand to All over America.
Pro-Palestinian students and activists were arrested all over America last week and then released without prosecution.
At these demonstrations, left-wing and anti-Zionist Jewish students stand up for the Palestinian cause, with a keffiyeh on their shoulders, denouncing a “genocide” committed by Israel.
Other young American Jews have expressed their displeasure and fears about these slogans, which they consider anti-Semitic.
This movement reached France, at the Science Po campus in Paris, where the demonstrators evacuated on Friday, following an agreement with the management.
