— Four Jewish students at the Technion in Haifa were detained by police Tuesday on suspicion of having beaten up three Arab students, one of them a girl, in the university dormitory in the early hours of the morning. One of the Jewish students was found with stab wounds near the student dorm.
Police said preliminary reports indicated the Jewish students, composed of members of a nationalist group, attacked the Arabs who were asleep in two rooms. The Arab students defended themselves and called for help, but the attackers fled before police arrived. The university’s students’ organization denounced the attack on the Arabs and called for peaceful relations between Jews and Arabs on campus.
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