Hamas Beats Professors, Students at Pro-Fatah University in Gaza

[New York Times] Taghreed El-Khodary - Hamas police and supporters on Monday beat a number of professors and students of Al Azhar University, the last bastion of Fatah in Gaza, wounding several, witnesses said. The school has been raided five times since Hamas took control of Gaza last June. A number of female students were attacked by outsiders, many armed with clubs. The women who were wounded were all wearing colorful headscarves, in deference to Islamic rules of modesty, but not the more conservative uniform worn by female students at the nearby Islamic University that is run by Hamas.


2008-04-01 01:00:00

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