Sunday, August 4, 2019

Graduating students from Hebron University in the West Bank




Some of the 1,117 Palestinian students who graduated from different colleges at Hebron University in the West Bank.

The late mayor of Hebron, Sheikh Mohammad Ali Al-Ja’bari, wished to establish an institution of higher learning to offset restrictions and obstacles created by the occupation by Israel. In 1971 the foundation was laid and forty-three students joined the 'Sharia' college from different parts of the Palestinian Territories. In 1983, the campus was attacked by Israeli settlers resulting in the deaths of 3 students and 50 students were injured. After the attack the University was closed by the Israeli Civil Administration for a period of time.

Eventually, the college became a university and now has an undergraduate enrolment of more than ten thousand students.

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