The Committee on Academic Freedom of the British Society for Middle East Studies (BRISMES) has condemned Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon that has resulted in the killing of two senior faculty members of the Lebanese University: Professor Hussein Bazi, Director of the Faculty of Sciences, and Professor Mortada Srour, Professor of Chemistry and Physics: “[. . .] an Israeli drone strike targeted the two professors while they were walking in the open courtyard of the Faculty of Sciences. Israeli media described the strike as a targeted assassination by the IDF, alleging that Professor Srour was a Hezbollah operative. We note that Israel has not provided any evidence for these claims. Even if such claims were accurate, Professor Srour was not engaged in military activity at the time of the attack and therefore would not constitute a lawful military target under international law. The targeting of individuals within educational settings represents a deeply troubling development, perpetuating a concerning pattern previously documented in Gaza.
[. . .] We call for an immediate end to US and Israeli aggression on Lebanon and Iran and a full arms embargo on Israel..” click here.