University · Islamic University — Gaza City, Gaza
Founded in 1978, the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) was Gaza's largest and most prominent higher education institution. It offered programmes across engineering, medicine, arts, sciences, and Islamic studies, and housed internationally recognised research centres. The university was presided over by physicist Dr. Sufyan Tayeh, who was killed in December 2023.
Three Palestinians were killed and several others wounded after Israeli fighter jets struck a tent sheltering displaced families inside the Islamic University in al-Rimal al-Janoubi neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
View full incident →Israel extensively bombs the Gaza campus of the Islamic University of Gaza, destroying its mosque and most of its main buildings (University of Chicago). On its official Facebook page, the university announced that the Information Technology Faculty building, the Faculty of Social Affairs and Continuing Education building, and the Science Faculty building all suffered severe damage, along with their equipment, laboratories, and furniture. All the windows in all the university buildings and on their facades are shattered (Palestine Studies).
Israeli forces detonated the medical school of the Islamic University
The buildings of the College of Information Technology, the Deanship of Community Service and Continuing Education, and the university’s College of Sciences were all seriously damaged,” read a University statement. During the ground invasion, which began in the end of October, the rest of the Islamic University buildings were detonated by Israeli forces
The Israeli military commences its assault on Gaza’s education sector by leveling the Islamic University of Gaza’s library.
View full incident →University Rector / researcher in physics and applied mathematics and his family killed.
On 14 September, at about 14:30, at least seven Palestinians were reportedly killed, and others were reported missing under the rubble, when one or more buildings within the Islamic University were successively hit in Ar Rimal neighbourhood, in central Gaza city, after the Israeli military reportedly issued warnings for people in the area to evacuate. At least one building was sheltering IDPs, who reportedly returned to collect belongings after the second strike when the building was struck again with high-explosive missiles.
Another building at the Islamic University in Gaza was struck and destroyed by several missiles, according to images and video from the scene. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz posted a video of the strikes targeting the six-story building on X, saying: “The ‘Islamic’ University in Gaza is going up in smoke. Eliminating the sources of incitement and terrorism.”
View full incident →📍 Islamic University of Gaza — Gaza City, Gaza
Three Palestinians were killed and several others wounded after Israeli fighter jets struck a tent sheltering displaced families inside the Islamic University in al-Rimal al-Janoubi neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
📍 Islamic University of Gaza — Gaza City, Gaza
Israel extensively bombs the Gaza campus of the Islamic University of Gaza, destroying its mosque and most of its main buildings (University of Chicago). On its official Facebook page, the university announced that the Information Technology Faculty building, the Faculty of Social Affairs and Continuing Education building, and the Science Faculty building all suffered severe damage, along with their equipment, laboratories, and furniture. All the windows in all the university buildings and on their facades are shattered (Palestine Studies).
📍 Islamic University of Gaza — Gaza City, Gaza
Israeli forces detonated the medical school of the Islamic University
📍 Islamic University of Gaza — Gaza City, Gaza
The buildings of the College of Information Technology, the Deanship of Community Service and Continuing Education, and the university’s College of Sciences were all seriously damaged,” read a University statement. During the ground invasion, which began in the end of October, the rest of the Islamic University buildings were detonated by Israeli forces
📍 Islamic University of Gaza — Gaza City, Gaza
The Israeli military commences its assault on Gaza’s education sector by leveling the Islamic University of Gaza’s library.
📍 Islamic University of Gaza — Gaza City, Gaza
University Rector / researcher in physics and applied mathematics and his family killed.
📍 Islamic University of Gaza — Gaza City, Gaza
📍 Islamic University of Gaza — Gaza City, Gaza
On 14 September, at about 14:30, at least seven Palestinians were reportedly killed, and others were reported missing under the rubble, when one or more buildings within the Islamic University were successively hit in Ar Rimal neighbourhood, in central Gaza city, after the Israeli military reportedly issued warnings for people in the area to evacuate. At least one building was sheltering IDPs, who reportedly returned to collect belongings after the second strike when the building was struck again with high-explosive missiles.
📍 Islamic University of Gaza — Gaza City, Gaza
Another building at the Islamic University in Gaza was struck and destroyed by several missiles, according to images and video from the scene. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz posted a video of the strikes targeting the six-story building on X, saying: “The ‘Islamic’ University in Gaza is going up in smoke. Eliminating the sources of incitement and terrorism.”