WASHINGTON, (PIC)
A group of students at the American Princeton University began a hunger strike on Saturday in solidarity with the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip who have been suffering from the scourge of the ongoing Israeli aggression for 211 consecutive days.
Members of the Palestine Solidarity Camp at Princeton University said in statement, “We have begun a hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza who are suffering under the ongoing Israeli siege.”
“The decision to strike comes in response to the US administration’s refusal to meet our demands by withdrawing its support for Israel,” they added.
The statement also underlined that “UN 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.”
Since last April 18, US universities have been witnessing student protests in support of the Gaza Strip in the face of the Israeli genocidal war, which later on expanded and spread to universities in countries such as France, Britain, Germany, Canada, and India.
The Israeli occupation army has been waging a genocidal aggression on the Gaza Strip for 211 successive days, claiming the lives of 34,654 people, the majority of whom are women and children, and injuring 77,908 others in addition to thousands of victims who are still under the rubble.
