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CERMOM press release - Solidarity and support for the Bir Zeit university community
21 January 2026
Press release from the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Moyen-Orient et la Méditerranée, dated January 21, 2026.
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026, under the pretext of preventing a rally organized in support of Palestinian political prisoners, the Israeli army entered the campus of Bir Zeit University (West Bank) and fired live ammunition at students. Twelve of them were injured, two of them seriously.
The CERMOM, which has a long-standing partnership with Bir Zeit University, would like to express its sympathy to the injured and their families, and more generally to all colleagues and students. It condemns in the strongest possible terms this latest attempt to prevent Palestinians from studying freely. It wishes to assure the entire Bir Zeit university community of its solidarity and support.