Italy: University of Milan suspends cooperation with Israel’s Reichman University

Italy’s University of Milan has suspended scientific cooperation agreements with Reichman University in Israel, local media have reported. The media quoted the Palestinian Youth Movement and the University Students’ Union on Tuesday regarding the move.

The university’s decision was made as a result of strong pressure put on it by students and faculty members in recent months. The University of Milan suspended its relations with Israel’s Ariel University a few months ago.

Students organised a sit-in on the campus in Milan last spring to protest against the Israeli attacks on Gaza and their university’s cooperation with universities in the occupation state.

Israel’s brutal offensive in Gaza has killed almost 43,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded at least 100,000 others since October last year. An estimated 11,000 remain missing, presumed dead, under the rubble of their homes and other civilian infrastructure destroyed by Israel. Almost the entire population of Gaza has been displaced amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice. It denies all allegations of genocide and war crimes.

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