Israeli Occupation Forces Arrest BZU Student Bashar Hijjeh

Early in the morning on Saturday, June 9, 2001, the Israeli occupation forces arrested Bashar Hijjeh, a senior student and former head of the student council at Birzeit University. Mr. Hijjeh was sleeping in his house in Burqa near Nablus when the Israeli occupation forces broke into his house and arrested him. Mr. Hijjeh, who is supposed to graduate in three weeks, is detained and under daily interrogation at the Petah Tikva prison for 22 days.

Birzeit University condemns these acts of aggression against unarmed civilians, and condemns the arrests of any student and/or faculty and staff members.