This professor once studied at Al -Azhar University in Gaza City. He returned to the campus in the rubble

Muhammad Juma Khatab weaves his way behind the car line, trucks and vehicles, waiting at a checkpoint to enter Gaza City from the Netzarim Corridor. The 80 -year -old professor tends slightly on a walking stick with every step he takes, wearing his shoes but his face is full of design to reach his destination.

The wrinkles in the face works deeply, evidence of a long life he calls his “tragic journey”. The professor was born in 1945, and witnessed many wars on this land, and between the external trips of work and education, the changes he passed.

But today, wearing sea blue pants, brown pants and a marine jacket, the pharmacy professor returns to the university where he taught it before the war: Al -Azhar University.

“I came to see how they destroyed this area,” he says to CBC Freelance VideoSer Mohamed El Saify. He refers to his bag, full of branches he collected from all over the school.

The organization said that United Nations experts “are very concerned about” Schulastide “in Gaza. In a press release in April 2024In reference to how Israel destroyed the educational spaces in the tape amid its war against Hamas. The office called it a “intended effort” to destroy the Palestinian education system. and According to official Palestinian dataAll higher education institutions in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged.

In a statement by CBC News, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) described the Scholachicide allegations as “baseless and unfounded.” At Al -Azhar University, the army said that weapons were found, such as missile parts and explosives, as well as a tunnel that leads to a nearby school, where she presented pictures of what you claim was found on the campus. He said this indicated that Hamas used the facility to attack the Israeli forces.

Return to campus

The streets become more severe, as domes reach the campus. The rubble everywhere, with the effects of the war left the Earth Gray. Using its walking stick, it begins to indicate what it has been different – now mostly ruins – on the campus.

“This is the rest of the university, only one building.” He hosted scientific conferences once, as he tells El Saify.

The concrete fence that was now surrounding the university is partially standing, and was drawn with spraying with Hebrew writings. Some of them are sporting chants, and the names of the other military brigade – all possible signs of those who entered the campus during the war.

Khabab obtained a doctorate in chemistry, biochemistry and pharmacy from the University of Rower Bouches in Germany in 1973. He says he was working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Libya and Sudan, before returning to Gaza in 1995. As someone who left the pocket in search of work and no longer, he was in the end. , It is clearly moved when the American president remembers Donald Trump’s recent comments about Gaza’s assumption.

“Please do not believe what Trump said, we will never get out of this country,” he said. “Our roots are very deep.”

Trump made Palestinian anger and Arab leaders The US proposal takes over GazaIt is replaced by its inhabitants and converting it to what he called “Riviera in the Middle East”. Under his plan, the Palestinians will not have the right to return.

The first stage of Israel is Hamas cease-fire In the Gaza Strip, it is close to its end, and there is already a conflict between the two sides. Over the past three weeks, Hamas has released 18 Israeli hostages, compared to hundreds of Palestinian detainees. This was according to their deal, in which Egypt and Qatar mediated, to stop the fighting that started after October 7, 2023, when an attack led by Hamas was killed by about 1,200 people and took about 250 people. Hadhaina. The Israeli war on Gaza killed more than 48,000 Palestinians.

The deal seemed about to fail this week, when the two sides accused each other of violating their approval. Hamas said it would stop launching the hostages until Israel allows more assistance in Gaza; Israel said that fighting in the pocket would resume if the armed group did not issue hostages on Saturday by noon.

Then Thursday, Hamas Reaffirming the dealSaying that three Israeli hostages will be released on Saturday as planned, although he rejected what he called “the language of threats and intimidation” from Israel and the United States, which the group cited Israel for more assistance in Gaza as reasons for the decision.

“Everything is destroyed”

A white and empty black bomb with written stickers in the Hebrew garment walks on the ground. Walk by a large pile of them and picks one. It seems like the Third World War, he says. He wonders where the contents of these containers fell and who took their lives.

The only construction is partially standing on the campus that Katab referred to, as it referred to the colleges of agriculture, veterinary medicine, law and political science. While making its way to the highest steps, the sound of walking stick on the ground repeats the remaining walls of the structure.

She was shocked clearly, mumbling Khatab for himself as he was walking in the halls he knew once. “Everything has been destroyed,” he says. The walls were also distorted here by writing on the walls.

Finally, the professor enters the building of the building. The Earth is completely covered with piles of curved aluminum symptoms, desktop furniture and documents. It bends to capture a set of papers. They are texts – signs of life were once, before a long period of war, with signs that are no longer important for students they received.

“In English, they got 77 out of 100, in Arabic, 85, in philosophy, 88 … excellent, excellent signs.”