About 50 students of the Siena Palestine Committee peacefully occupied the entrance to the Mattioli campus of the University of Siena with 10 tents and under the banner ‘Stop genocide’. An ‘Acampada’ as in other Italian and European universities “to ask for a stop to collaborations with Israeli universities”.
About 50 students of the Siena Palestine Committee peacefully occupied the entrance to the Mattioli campus of the University of Siena with 10 tents and under the banner ‘Stop genocide’. An ‘Acampada’ as in other Italian and foreign universities “to ask for a stop to collaborations with Israeli institutions and companies that produce weapons. We ask that the university condemns Israel’s aggression in the Gaza strip and that it further increase measures to support Palestine” underlines Samuele Picchianti, member of the Palestine Siena Committee. “We will remain here until we have answers” continue the students who have asked for a public meeting with the rector of the University of Siena Roberto Di Pietra and the rector of the University for Foreigners Tomaso Montanari for Wednesday 15 May, the anniversary of the Nakba, l The Palestinian exodus occurred in 1948, during the first Arab-Israeli war. «We are following an international protest – added Francesca Parri, member of the Committee -. We ask Unisi and Unistrasi to terminate the agreements with Italian universities but also with companies that are complicit in the genocide, such as Leonardo and Eni.”
