The Islamic University of Gaza.. A history of Israeli attacks

The Islamic University of Gaza was
established in 1978 by a decision from the Al-Azhar Institute, from which the number of high school graduates increased, without them having the opportunity to receive higher education within

The university began its journey with 25 students and a faculty of 5 lecturers, one of whom holds a doctorate degree, and 4 hold master’s degrees.

Among the tents that were later turned into temporary classrooms, colleges were opened successively until 1985, until the university included the colleges of fundamentals of religion, education, commerce, and science, and an attempt to open the College of Nursing in 1986, but the decision was rejected by the occupation authorities, which were in charge of the civil and military administration of the besieged sector.

Since its founding, the Islamic University has been subjected to continuous attacks by the occupation army and its administration in the Gaza Strip, which continued to raid its headquarters and arrest its students and faculty members, in addition to closing it for years during the first intifada due to the prominent participation of its students and professors in the activities of the intifada.

The Islamic University also maintains a long list of its graduates who later formed important streams of Palestinian organizational work, including Ismail Haniyeh, Yahya Al-Sinwar, Muhammad Al-Deif, Izz al-Din Sheikh Khalil, and Ibrahim al-Maqadmeh, who were members of the university’s successive student councils. The list also includes the former leader of the Fatah movement, Muhammad Dahlan, who He was the head of the Fatah Youth Organization at the university during his youth.

On the fifth day of the current ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip, occupation warplanes launched a violent wave of unprecedented aerial bombardment on the main headquarters of the Islamic University west of Gaza City, resulting in its complete destruction.

[A.k]