Members of the Israeli forces take positions during a military raid in the West Bank. AP
Military vehicles entered the campus late in the morning, according to several witnesses who spoke to AFP and whose accounts were confirmed by university president Talal Shahwan.
Videos posted to social media showed the attack, while AFP journalists saw several military vehicles leave the campus, escorted by Israeli soldiers on foot.
The university's communications department told AFP that all of the wounded were students.
The Red Crescent said 11 people were wounded in total, including five from live ammunition, four through gas inhalation and two as a result of falls.
An AFP journalist saw ambulances take away several people.
"Unfortunately, the university has been a recurring target, but this time the brutality crossed all limits," Shahwan told a news conference.
The Israeli army had previously entered the campus several times. Palestinians consider the university to be one of the best in the territories.
In September 2024, the army confiscated property belonging to the student council.
Since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, attacks by the Israeli forces and settlers across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, have killed more than 1,100 Palestinians, injured11,000 others, and led to the arrest of more than 21,000 people, according to Palestinian figures.
Yesterday, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that more than 12,000 Palestinian children remain forcibly displaced in the occupied West Bank, as a result of the ongoing Israeli military operation in the northern governorates.
Since 21 January 2025, the Israeli occupation army has continued a military campaign in the northern West Bank dubbed “Iron Wall,” which began in the Jenin refugee camp and later expanded to the Nur Shams and Tulkarm refugee camps.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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