The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said on Saturday that it "documented the killing by the Israeli occupation army forces of 94 Palestinian university professors, along with hundreds of teachers and thousands of students as part of the comprehensive crime of genocide that it has been waging against the Gaza Strip since last October 7." They pointed out that "the initial data on the targeting operations indicate that there is no justification or clear goal behind targeting these people."The Observatory stated that “the list that it documented includes 17 individuals who hold a professor’s degree, 59 who hold a doctorate degree, and 18 who hold a master’s degree,” stressing that this number is not final, as there are estimates that there are other numbers of targeted academics, as well as those who hold higher degrees, and they have not been counted. As a result of documentation difficulties resulting from the inability to move freely, the interruption of communications and the Internet, and the presence of thousands of missing persons who have not yet been counted.”They also pointed out that "the academics targeted by Israeli killing are distributed across various knowledge sciences, and the majority of them represent the foundations of academic work in Gaza's universities."
