"Whoever is in solidarity with our corpses but not our rockets is a hypocrite and not one of us."

From the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University in New York.

🟢 Hamas:
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, Most Merciful,

We in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have closely followed the statement issued by the White House, signed by 18 countries, which essentially called for the release of prisoners in the Gaza Strip. We express our regret that the statement did not address fundamental issues affecting our people who are suffering under the burden of a comprehensive genocide war, nor did it emphasize the need for a permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of the occupation army from the Gaza Strip, in addition to ambiguity surrounding other clauses.

We affirm again that the movement is open to any ideas or proposals that take into consideration the just needs and rights of our people, represented by a final cessation to the aggression against them, the withdrawal of occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, and the unrestricted and unconditional return of the displaced to their homes in the governorates of Gaza and North Gaza and all areas of the Strip. This includes reconstruction, lifting the siege, supplying our people with all their relief and humanitarian needs, and proceeding to achieve a serious agreement for the exchange of prisoners, on the path to granting our Palestinian people their full legitimate national rights, self-determination, and establishing their independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital.

We call on the American administration, the countries that signed the statement, and the international community, to remove the cover from the genocide crime committed by the zionist enemy against the unarmed children and civilians in the Gaza Strip, and to pressure for its end as an urgent priority. Furthermore, we call for opposition to the terrorist policies of Netanyahu, who seeks to plunge the region into an abyss to fulfill personal political calculations and to satisfy the desires of his allies from the extremist right, who stand against any attempt to reach a just agreement that would end the aggression and return the prisoners and detainees.

Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
Friday: 17 Shawwal 1445 AH
Corresponding to: 26 April 2024 AD

🚨 Despite intense repression, the number of university encampments in solidarity with Gaza continues to grow, demanding divestment from zionism and an end to the genocide in Palestine, in addition to a growing number of solidarity protests.

Hundreds— including faculty and professors protecting students—have been arrested or beaten by American zionist police forces, whose tactics are inherited from the IOF.

The encampments are employing a diversity of strategies, but their demands and goals are united: full divestment, an end to genocide, and material disruption. Physical space is being reclaimed, with Cal Poly Humboldt students renaming "Siemens Hall" to "Intifada Hall" and Emerson students in Boston renaming the street of their encampment "Walid Daqqah Alley."

We encourage subscribers to read the linked communiques from the heart of the encampments at Emory University and Columbia University to understand the demands and strategies of the students. You may also read, print, and distribute guides and toolkits from RNN.

The total number of encampments worldwide in support of Palestine has increased to 53 with the following encampments being launched since yesterday's update, as far as RNN's knowledge:

- Fashion Institute of Technology - New York City, NY
- Indiana University Bloomington - Bloomington, IN
- University of California Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA
- University of Texas, Arlington - Arlington, TX
- Cornell University - Ithaca, NY
- University of Houston - Houston, TX
- University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA
- Portland State University - Portland, OR
- Stanford University - Stanford, California
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Champaign, IL (Telegram)
- University of Connecticut - Storrs, CT (Telegram, Instagram)
- Warwick University - UK (Instagram)

Previously reported encampments:
- Brown University - Providence, RI
- California State Polytechnic University (Instagram) - Humboldt, CA
- City University of New York (Telegram)- New York City, NY
- Columbia University (Telegram) - New York City, NY
- Emerson College - Boston, MA
- Emory University - Atlanta, GA
- Florida International University - Miami, FL
- Florida State University - Tallahassee, FL
- George Washington University - DC
- Harvard University - Cambridge, MA.
- Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis, IN
- New York University (Telegram) - New York City, NY
- Northeastern University - Boston, MA
- Northwestern University (Telegram) - Evanston, IL
- Ohio State University - Columbus, OH
- Princeton University - Princeton, NJ
- Rice University - Houston, TX
- Texas A&M - College Station, TX
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Telegram) - Cambridge, MA
- Michigan State University (Telegram) - East Lansing, MI
- The New School - New York City, NY (Telegram)
- The University of Michigan (Telegram) - Ann Arbor, MI
- Tufts University - Medford, MA
- University of Arizona - Tucson
- University of California at Berkeley - Berkeley, CA
- University of Maryland - College Park, MD
- University of Miami - Oxford, OH
- University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN
- University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM
- University of North Carolina - Charlotte, NC
- University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, NC
- University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA
- University of Rochester - Rochester, NY
- University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA
- University of Texas, Austin - Austin, TX
- University of Texas at Dallas - Dallas, TX
- Vanderbilt University - Nashville, TN
- Yale University - New Haven, CT

Australia:
- University of Sydney
- Melbourne University

France:
- SciencesPo - Paris

Resistance News Network sends its salutations to the growing and united revolutionary student movement, which has emerged in solidarity with the Palestinian people and resistance in decisive action to impede US imperial support for the genocidal zionist entity.

We also encourage students part of encampments or planning them to send us updates via our messaging bot (preferably in the form of a news update): @RNN_Messaging_Bot

🚨 An IOF drone launched a strike targeting a car in the town of Maydoun, in the western Bekaa, in the southern Lebanese depth.

🚨 A Palestinian has ascended to martyrdom by settlers bullets after carrying out a stabbing resistance operation which wounded one settler in Ramleh, west of #AlQuds.

Glory to the martyrs.

🚨 Settlers are opening fire towards Palestinians in the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of #Ramallah.

🚨 Resistance fighters are engaged in armed clashes are with zionist forces at the colonial Salem checkpoint, west of #Jenin.

🟢 Hamas:
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

The measures imposed by the zionist occupation authorities on worshipers in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, restricting their entry to perform Friday prayers there, preventing large segments of our people from attending it, and barbarically attacking them is a blatant aggression against our people, their sanctities, and their freedom to worship and attend the blessed Mosque. It comes in the context of the zionists’ quest to Judaize the city of Al-Quds and its sanctities, most notably Al-Aqsa Mosque.

We salute our people who defied the restrictions of the occupation and entered Al-Aqsa Mosque. We warn of the danger of the zionist escalation in Al-Quds and Al-Aqsa. We call on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the League of Arab States to take serious and effective action to protect Al-Aqsa and the Islamic and Christian holy sites from the tampering of the zionists and the Judaization and division projects systematically sponsored by the fascist entity’s leadership.

Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas

Friday: Shawwal 17, 1445 AH
Corresponding to: April 26, 2024 AD

🚨 The Ambrey maritime security company announced a security incident 15 nautical miles west of the city of Mokha, Yemen.