NAZARETH, January 12, 2026 (WAFA) – Student movements at Israeli universities and higher education institutes organized, on Monday, a series of protest sit-ins against the spread of violence and crime in the Palestinian community inside the 1948 territories, and in condemnation of the complicity and failure of the Israeli police to confront it.

Several students at the University of Haifa took part on Monday in a sit-in inside the university campus, denouncing the escalating scourge of violence and crime in the Palestinian community within the 1948 territories, and protesting the Israeli police’s continued failure to address it.

Participants chanted slogans accusing the police of negligence and raised banners bearing phrases such as “Stop the war of crime” and “The government and the police are partners in crime,” alongside photos of victims who were killed.

Meanwhile, student movements at Tel Aviv University organized a protest demonstration on Sunday in Entin Square outside the university, with the participation of dozens of students, denouncing the Israeli government’s failure and the police’s complicity in confronting rampant crime in the Palestinian community within the 1948 territories.

The protest began with the erection of a sit-in tent at the university entrance, as part of escalation steps aimed at pressuring the Israeli authorities to assume their responsibility in combating crime.

Students also raised banners reading: “Where the police fail, innocents are killed,” “Behind every number is a family,” “The Israeli police are partners in crime,” and “From the university to the neighborhood, the police are treacherous.”

T.R.