Founded on the principles of excellence and opportunity for all, [Birzeit University->https://www.birzeit.edu/en/about] has become Palestine’s leading academic institution. It is an academic powerhouse with a clear focus on excellence that has secured it national and international recognition unparalleled with other established institutions. Birzeit University is a vibrant community of scholarship and learning that stands in the service of the country and the community.
At midnight of September 22, 2025, Israeli occupation forces once again stormed Birzeit University. Israeli Soldiers violently assaulted campus guards before raiding several university buildings, including the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Art, Music and Design, the Naseeb Azeez Shaheen Auditorium, and the Student Council office.
Birzeit University’s initiative to support and resume higher education in Gaza.
Just one day after the start of its 2023-2024 academic year, Israeli occupation forces stormed Birzeit University campus in the early morning hours of Sunday, September 24, 2023 in another targeted attack against Palestinian educational institutions andspecifically Birzeit University. During the raid, they arrested several students including the elected Student Council President, violently assaulted the university’s guards, andvandalized the Student Council’s office.
Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine, July 30- August 1, 2022
Birzeit University rejects Israel’s most recent attempt to constrict the fundamental right of Palestinians to education and to undermine the academic freedom and autonomy of Palestinian universities. Scheduled to take….
At 4:15 a.m. on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 over one-hundred Israeli soldiers broke through the main campus gate, assaulted and detained several security guards, tore down the Palestinian Flag at….
Birzeit University strongly protests Israel’s brutal attacks on all segments of Palestinian society, including its latest ruthless assault on the two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, killing over 250,….
Heightened restrictions on Birzeit University’s right to hire and maintain international faculty persist into the 2019-2020 academic year. Israel has escalated what can only be understood as a policy whose….
