Three Palestinian university students shot and wounded in the US

Three Palestinian university students shot and wounded in the US

Three palestinian students who attend American universities were shot Saturday night in burlingtonin the state of Vermont, and were being treated on Sunday, according to the students’ former school in the West Bank.

The Friends School Ramallah reported in a Facebook post on Sunday that three of its graduates had been shot near the University of Vermont campus: Hisham Awartani, who attends Brown University in Rhode Island, Kinnan Abdel Hamid, who attends Haverford College of Pennsylvania, and Tahseen Ahmed, who attends Trinity College in Connecticut.

The school said that everyone had survived, with injuries of varying severity.

“We extend our sympathy and prayers to them and their families for a full recovery, especially considering the severity of the injuries, as Hisham has been shot in the back, Tahseen in the chest and Kinnan, slightly injured,” he said. the Facebook post.

The Burlington Police reported in a statement late Saturday that officers had responded to calls of shots fired around 6:30 p.m. Saturday night and found two people wounded in a location near the university campus and to a third a short distance away.

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Without identifying the victims, the police statement said that the first two were treated at the scene and later transferred to the University of Vermont Medical Center by the firefighters, and that the police took the third to the same hospital.

Police The perpetrator of the shooting has not been identified or arrested., according to the statement. A police spokesman could not be reached on Sunday.

The conflict moves to other countries

The shooting occurs at a time when USA is witnessing an increase in Islamophobic incidents and anti-semites, including violent attacks and online harassment, since the conflict between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7.

The students spoke Arabic and wore the traditional Palestinian kufiya, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, calling on US authorities to sanction those responsible.

He American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), human rights organization based in the United States, called on state and federal law enforcement agencies in a statement on Sunday to investigate the shooting as a hate crime.

“The rise in anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian sentiment we are experiencing is unprecedented, and this is another example of that hatred turning violent,” said Abed Ayoub, national executive director of the ADC.

Source: Ambito

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