Canadian student hospitalized after month-long hunger strike for Palestine
A Canadian student from McGill University, who has been on an indefinite hunger strike in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, is admitted to hospital.
Rania Amine, an undergraduate student at McGill University in Montreal, went to the hospital for IV fluids when she fainted and doctors advised she be hospitalized.
Amine is one of the two students who on 19 February started refusing food indefinitely to demand that the university divest from weapons companies supporting the Israeli military and end its associations with the regime’s universities.
Around 15 other students have also been engaged in a hunger strike on a rotational basis in solidarity with the Palestinians amid a genocidal Israeli war.
According to organizers of the campaign, McGill University has invested around $20 million in several weapon manufacturers, including the French Safran and the American Lockheed Martin.
Speaking on Friday, Amine said the Canadian university had ignored the peaceful protests by students.
“McGill has ultimately pushed us to take this extreme form of action and put our bodies and our health and our lives on the line to make them know that it is absolutely unacceptable that they use our tuition money to invest in this way,” She added.
Israel waged its brutal US-backed war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
So far, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 32,226 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 74,518 others.
In a war crime, the occupying regime is intentionally starving the people in Gaza by destroying food supplies and severely restricting the flow of food, medicines and other humanitarian goods.
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