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As students sat in classrooms and roamed the campus, Israel’s army opened fire on a well-known university in the occupied West Bank, leaving scores of people injured.

As frantic students and staff watched in shock on Tuesday, Israeli soldiers smashed open the university’s gates.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society claims that three of the injured were shot in the legs. Three people were struck by flying shrapnel, and five others were inhaled with tear gas.

According to the official Wafa news agency, Birzeit University said the attack “constitutes a flagrant and deliberate violation of the sanctity of universities and educational institutions.”

The campus’s “storming in broad daylight and turning it into a military zone” is the result of a “synthetic policy” intended to intimidate students, undermine their right to education, and target Palestinian consciousness.

11 people were being treated at the Istishari Arab Hospital in Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The Israeli raid came after a student event held in solidarity with thousands of imprisoned Palestinians in Israeli custody, and it also coincided with a screening of the movie “Hind Rajab,” a girl who was shot dead by soldiers in Gaza at the age of six.

Shortly before the screening, Israeli forces stormed the campus. The Israeli army claimed that it attacked a university “gathering in support of terrorism.”

“Started shooting,”

According to a report from Birzeit University, Nida Ibrahim of Al Jazeera reported that 11 people had been taken to hospitals as a result of the attack.

It was unheard of. People claim to have never witnessed anything comparable. We’re discussing an Israeli raid that occurred inside the university where students are enrolling for the first time, and Ibrahim said that the Israeli forces started firing live ammunition rather than tear gas.

They rely on education to have jobs, live a life, and support their families because they are under occupation and have so many choices. However, many students are now concerned about this. Israeli assaults are not tolerated anywhere.

The violent assault was condemned by Palestine’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education, who claimed that the attack violated all international standards and conventions governing educational facilities.

The ministry called on the International Association of Universities, the Association of Arab Universities, and international human rights organizations to condemn the Israeli shooting and claim that it would not “break the will of Palestinian students or staff.”

The nail in the coffin, then.

Israel’s final step toward building a contentious settlement project close to East Jerusalem, which would effectively divide the occupied West Bank into two, was completed on Tuesday, according to a government tender.

The E1 project’s construction can begin with a tender seeking developer bids. The tender was first reported by Peace Now, an anti-settlement monitoring organization. Initial work could start in the month, according to Yanji Mizrahi, the group’s settlement watch division.

E1, an open parcel of land east of Jerusalem, has been subject to ongoing planning for more than 20 years, but US pressure from previous administrations led to its freezing.

The West Bank’s construction of Israeli settlements is viewed by the international community as being against international law and a barrier to peace.

Because it extends far beyond Jerusalem and into the occupied West Bank, the E1 project is particularly contentious. It would, according to critics, prevent the territory from becoming a single Palestinian state.

Bezalel Smotrich, the far-right politician who controls settlement policy in Israel, has long advocated for the implementation of the plan.

When Israel gave final approval to the plan in August, Smotrich claimed that “the Palestinian state is being erased from the table not with slogans but with actions.” Every settlement, every neighborhood, and every housing unit are just another example of how dangerous this idea is.

No Americans, according to US President Donald Trump, but some soldiers ‘on the other side’ were killed during the “complex” military operation that abducted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

In response to threats from US President Donald Trump, Colombia’s foreign minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has warned that her nation would respond to any violation of its sovereignty with a military coup.

Villavicencio made the point that, in the event of an attack, nations have the right to self-defense under international law.

The military must defend the country’s sovereignty and the national territory, she said.

Her remarks come as Latin America struggles to cope with the aftermath of the US military’s Saturday attack, which left Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores dead and in the hands of the country.

Trump outlined the Western Hemisphere as his sphere of influence in an announcement on Saturday, citing the region’s influence in particular.

Trump praised the “great dominance” of the US, noting that “we are reasserting American power in a very powerful way in our home region.”

He added that anyone who threatens or threatens American lives should be warned about the military operation.

Venezuela and Colombia as a parallel?

Trump has disputed the claim that Maduro was the head of a Venezuelan drug-trafficking network, and he has blamed him for causing thousands of overdose deaths in the US.

Trump compared Venezuela to Colombia, its neighbor and the world’s top cocaine producer, on Sunday while he was on Air Force One.

It’s very sick, Venezuela. In an apparent reference to Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro, Trump said, “Columbia is very sick, run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.” Let me tell you, “He won’t be doing it for very long.”

Trump responded, “So there would be an operation by the US,” to the question that one reporter had posed.

Petro’s administration has long praised its efforts to stop cocaine trafficking by destroying the labs where it is produced and intercepting shipments.

Petro celebrated the largest cocaine seizure in a decade last November when 14 tons, valued at nearly $ 388.9 million, were sequestered as it arrived at Buenaventura’s port on the Pacific Ocean.

Despite Trump’s claims that Petro is a drug dealer, there is no proof Petro is involved in any drug trafficking.

Petro criticized the Republican leader for his hardline immigration policies, his support for Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, and his deadly attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, but they have since exchanged barbs.

Trump has responded by imposing sanctions on Petro, removing his US visa in September, and imposing sanctions on him in October.

rhetoric that erupts

Petro will become the first left-wing leader to lead Colombia’s government in 2026.

He denounced Venezuela’s US attack and warned that Latin America must unite to protect its interests.

In all of human history, the US is the first nation to bomb a South American capital, according to Petro.

Because South Americans will not forget it for generations, what a terrible distinction that is. The wound is still there for a long time.

Later, he made mention of his involvement in Colombia’s six-decade-long internal armed conflict while fighting as a rebel in his teens and 20s. If Colombia were to face international attacks, he suggested that he would reload his weapons.

Petro posted on social media that he swore not to touch any weapon since the 1989 peace agreement, but that he will do so for the sake of the country.

In a statement, Villavicencio emphasized that Colombia is “addressing drug trafficking with rigor, sacrifice, and a comprehensive approach.”

She added that her ministry rejects any threats to Colombia’s democratically elected president as well as to its sovereignty on Tuesday.

She said, “An offence against the president is an offence against our country and a disregard for all democratic processes that we have engaged in.”