. Since then, tensions have risen dangerously between India and Pakistan, which have fought
Palestinians walk by the gate of the Islamic University in Gaza City, which now is a shelter for displaced Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Members of the Al-Basyouni family, displaced from Beit Hanoun, eat in their tent at the Islamic University in Gaza City, which now is a shelter for displaced Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Members of the Al-Basyouni family, displaced from Beit Hanoun, eat in their tent at the Islamic University in Gaza City, which now is a shelter for displaced Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Their struggle to survive has worsened because Israel has, fuel, medicine and all other goods into Gaza for more than a month, straining the limited supplies of aid agencies on which nearly the entire population relies.
Israel says it has targeted Gaza’s universities because Hamas militants use them for military purposes. It struck Islamic University several times saying militants launched attacks from the campus. It denies inflicting unnecessary damage.One of the territory’s largest, the Islamic University of Gaza had some 17,000 students before the war, studying everything from medicine and chemistry to literature and commerce. More than 60% of its students were women.
The campus has been pummeled by airstrikes and raids by Israeli ground troops. Strikes have killed at least 10 of its professors and deans, including the university president; prominent physicist Sufian Tayeh, who was killed along with his family when their home was bombed; and one of its best known professors,
, an English teacher who organized workshops for young writers from Gaza.Veteran Affairs Minister Matt Keogh said the “booing was led by someone who’s a known neo-Nazi.”
“We’re commemorating some of those soldiers who fell in a war that was fought against that sort of hateful ideology and so it was completely disrespectful and it’s not something that is welcome at Anzac Day commemorations ever,” Keogh said.Police said a 26-year-old man had been directed to leave the service.
The man had been interviewed over an allegation of offensive behavior and would be issued a summons to appear in court, a police statement said.A heckler also disrupted the Welcome to Country at the main dawn service in the Western Australia state capital Perth.