With no universities left in Gaza, student protests bring hope
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Student protests are resonating with Palestinians, who face the destruction of nearly all universities in Gaza. Palestinian university presidents signed an open letter saying the protests serve as a “beacon of hope.” We look at what has been lost and what remains.
In this episode:
- Jehad Abusalim (@JehadAbusalim), Executive Director, The Jerusalem Fund
- Heigo Parsa, University of Toronto Student
- Jasmine Al-Rawi, (@studentsforpalestinesydneyuni), University of Sydney Student
- Sesek Duran, National Autonomous University of Mexico Student
- Sundos Hammad, Right to Education Coordinator, Birzeit University
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Chloe K. Li and Ashish Malhotra with our host Malika Bilal. Catherine Nouhan fact-checked this episode.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, the sound of student protest echoes worldwide. |
| 0:16.0 | And in Gaza. And in Gaza. |
| 0:22.6 | They are leaving their education. They are getting harm. |
| 0:24.6 | They're getting in trouble for us. |
| 0:26.6 | We really appreciate it. |
| 0:28.6 | It's a refrain we heard on campus after campus. |
| 0:32.6 | Israel has destroyed nearly all of Gaza's universities. |
| 0:37.7 | What's now lost? |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is the take. |
| 0:52.1 | Gaza University, Israab, Islamic University of Gaza. |
| 0:58.2 | These are just three of Gaza's institutions of higher learning. |
| 1:03.4 | None are still standing. |
| 1:06.3 | They have all been destroyed or heavily damaged in Israel's war on Gaza. |
| 1:10.7 | And it's been going on since the earliest days. |
| 1:18.4 | This is from a conversation I had with Madame Hamede, an Al Jazeera reporter in Gaza back in October. |
| 1:25.8 | What are you hearing? Let's pause there. What are you hearing? |
| 1:29.0 | Listen, sound of bombings. |
| 1:32.0 | I was just following the news and I saw that they warned the Islamic University central |
| 1:38.4 | the Gaza area to be bombed and the people there are evacuating. |
| 1:43.6 | So I'm expecting that this bomb was near the Islamic University, I think. |
| 1:50.0 | Maram was right. The Islamic University had been bombed. |
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