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The brutal Israeli genocide war has reached its 211th day, as the Zionist occupation forces in Gaza Strip persist in carrying out war crimes and massacres through numerous air strikes, artillery shelling, and violent attacks on civilians.
Dozens of Martyrs and Wounded
The occupation's aggression in Gaza persists, resulting in the deaths and injuries of many citizens, predominantly children and women, due to ongoing bombing in different areas of the Strip today, on Saturday.
The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) reported that three martyrs' bodies were found under the debris of a house attacked by the occupying forces in the Al-Saftawi region, located to the north of Gaza City.
In the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, two martyrs and five injured arrived as a result of the occupation aircraft targeting a house on Salah al-Din Road.
Rescue and civil defense crews recovered 7 decomposed bodies of martyrs of different groups and ages from various areas in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and search operations are still continuing to recover bodies in various places in the city.
In the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, two people were killed, one of them a child, and others were injured, as a result of the occupation warplanes targeting a house in the El Geneina neighborhood.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the occupation had committed 3 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, with 32 martyrs and 41 injured arriving at hospitals during the past 24 hours.
Thus, the toll of the aggression rises to 34,654 martyrs and 77,908 injured since the seventh of last October.
“Al-Qassam” Targets an Occupation Barracks
The Palestinian resistance persists with its activities, facing off against Zionist forces in different parts of Gaza. Today, Saturday, the "Al-Qassam Brigades" of Hamas targeted a military barracks in the "Netzarim" area with mortar shells.
Hamas in Cairo to Resume Negotiations
Today, Saturday, a delegation from the Hamas movement headed to Cairo to complete discussions on the prisoner exchange deal and stop the aggression in Gaza.
The movement said that its delegation headed to Cairo in light of recent contacts with mediators in Egypt and Qatar, stressing that it dealt positively with the ceasefire proposal that it recently received.
She added: We in the Hamas movement and the Palestinian resistance forces are determined to mature the agreement, in a way that achieves the demands of our people to stop the aggression completely, withdraw the occupation forces, return the displaced, provide relief to our people, begin reconstruction, and complete a serious exchange deal.
Developments in the American student movement
Hunger strike at Princeton University
Today, Saturday, students at Princeton University went on a hunger strike in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
Members of the “Palestine Solidarity Camp” at Princeton University said in a statement: “We have begun a hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, who are suffering under the ongoing Israeli siege.”
The statement added that the strike decision comes in response to the US administration’s refusal to meet our demands by withdrawing its support for “Israel.”
He stated that “United Nations data show that Gaza contains the largest number of people facing catastrophic famine,” noting that “dozens were forced to use fine animal feed to make bread and breakfast during the month of Ramadan,” according to what was reported by the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa).
No confidence vote on Emory University president
Faculty members of the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University in Georgia vote in favor of no confidence in the university's president.
The American CNN network said on Saturday: The vote comes against the backdrop of calling the police against students protesting against the ongoing “Israeli” aggression against Gaza, according to what Al Jazeera reported.
Universities reach an agreement with the student demonstrators
At Evergreen University, the university administration reached a memorandum of understanding with the protesting pro-Palestine students.
The Columbian newspaper reported on Friday that an understanding was reached between the students and the administration on April 30, and the demands of the demonstrators who agreed to remove their camp were accepted.
Under the memorandum of understanding, university president John Carmichael will issue a statement demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all detainees and the expansion of humanitarian aid.
The university also pledged not to approve study abroad programs in Israel, Gaza, or the West Bank while the conflict continues, or programs in areas where students may be banned because of their Jewish or Palestinian identity, according to Anadolu Agency.
CNN reported that the administration of the University of California, Riverside, had reached an agreement with its students to ensure the end of their sit-in camp, after the university pledged transparency and disclosure of investments and academic cooperation programs with external institutions.
Northwestern, Brown, Rutgers, and Minnesota universities were also able to conclude agreements with the pro-Palestinian demonstrators, but they did not agree to withdraw their investments from companies that deal with “Israel,” according to what was published by the site of “Radio Sawt Arabs from America,” according to USA Today.