Press Statement

Issued by the Student Frameworks in the Universities of the Gaza Strip
Addressed to University Students Around the World and to All Free People Defending the Palestinian Cause

Throughout the history of nations and the revolutions of free and proud peoples, the student and youth movements have always been a genuine source and fundamental pillar in achieving the hopes and aspirations of those nations.

Today, in the face of the genocidal war waged by the Israeli occupation against the Gaza Strip—through destruction, starvation, displacement, and the targeting of an entire population for extermination—the student and youth movement stands before its most important moral and humanitarian test. In a century, no people have endured what your brothers and sisters in Gaza are enduring.

60,000 martyrs, two-thirds of them children and women.
20,000 missing under the rubble.
More than 100,000 injured.
Tens of thousands missing, detained, or forcibly disappeared.
Two million displaced citizens threatened with expulsion from their land and homeland.

Systematic and continuous starvation.
Deliberate and ongoing thirst.
Blockades on medicine, food, and clothing.
Destruction of all aspects of life—mosques, churches, cafés, stadiums, schools, universities, and even kindergartens have not been spared. Every part of life and every facility in the Gaza Strip, which has been under siege for seventeen consecutive years, has been targeted.

To our students… our young men and women…

The time has come for your powerful word, your thunderous voice, your revolutionary movement. And we are certain that the squares and streets will resound with your presence and your voices. For the sake of Gaza, its youth, its children, its women, be there, and rise to the moment.

The enemy’s embassies are before you.
Its consulates are near you.
The strategic sites of its allies that deliver military support and deadly weapons through ports and airports: all of these must be part of your uprising to confront the greatest historical injustice inflicted upon the Palestinian people.

We are certain that you are the most worthy and the most capable of confronting the current and reversing the equation, of inflicting pain on the enemy and all who support its ongoing genocide, a genocide unlike anything humanity has ever witnessed.

The cries of Gaza’s women awaken every living conscience.
The weeping of its children under bombardment and starvation demands that every free and honorable person rise from apathy and redirect the course toward one clear equation:

The occupier and its supporters will never enjoy peace anywhere in the world as long as the genocide in Gaza continues.

— The Student Frameworks – Universities of the Gaza Strip