NEW YORK, October, 5, 2024 (WAFA) – Columbia University students in New York State, USA, began reading 2360 names of those who were killed in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing occupation aggression for nearly a year, in honor of them and to confirm that they are not just numbers.

The students were able to read this number of names, recorded in only 59 pages, out of 859 pages containing the names of 34,344 Palestinians who were killed in Gaza, in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in rejection of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

This protest will continue for a whole week, accompanied by hanging pictures and names of children who were killed and the Palestinian flag in the university courtyards, to draw the attention of the students and the university administration to the massacres committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people.

On April 18, students and academics opposed to the aggression on Gaza began a sit-in on the campus of Columbia University in New York, demanding that its administration stop its academic cooperation with Israeli universities and withdraw its investments in companies that support the occupation.

With the intervention of the police and the arrest of dozens of protesters, the anger expanded to universities in countries such as France, Britain, Germany, Canada and India, all of which witnessed demonstrations and demands to stop the aggression  on Gaza and boycott companies that supply Israel with weapons.

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