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Category as Universities in Israel[edit]

I added that because a) there's no "Category:Universities in Palestinian Terriries", and b) it's useful (i.e., people looking for universities, whether Palestinian or Israeli, will want to use the cat). In other words, it's helpful; please see Wikipedia is not the UN. -Patstuart^talk|edits 14:48, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please rest assured I had no battles in mind, in fact I steer clear of middle-east topics for that same reason, problem is though that Gaza, no matter how you define it, is not considered part of Israel by anyone, this distinguishes it from say, the Golan Heights or East-Jerusalem. If the Arab University in Jerusalem is to be categorised I feel both categories (Unis in Israel, Unis in PT) could be used, or maybe even should be used at the same time.

Using a 'Universities in Israel' cat is best not done, not because of any political wrangling on my side but because it would be factually incorrect. --Isolani 11:00, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:56, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Relationship with Al-Azhar University Cairo[edit]

The Al-Azhar University article implies that the university in Gaza is a branch of Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Is this accurate? If so this should be stated here. Verbcatcher (talk) 03:26, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Source for claims regarding attack on the university[edit]

As far as I can tell, no reliable source has verified the claims of an attack on the university. And claiming that a certain party did it without citing a source is really not something that should be happening here. If this is covered/verified in a reliable source then I'm fine with it being added to the page but tweets of an unverified video are not a reliable source. Philipnelson99 (talk) 19:39, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

University has been destroyed in Israel Hamas war[edit]

https://www.jordannews.jo/Section-126/All/Israel-flattens-Al-Azhar-University-in-Gaza-32042 Moav (talk) 03:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Moav that source cited a Twitter post which is not considered reliable. furthermore there is no evidence of it being an IDF strike Philipnelson99 (talk) 06:08, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]