Approximately 100 students are rallying outside the Technion university in Haifa in protest of the deaths of the three Israeli teenagers, the Ynet news website reports.
The demonstrators are also denouncing a Facebook status posted by an Israeli-Arab medical student that hailed the killing. “Three goals for Palestine, even though they aren’t playing in the World Cup!” he wrote, immediately following the announcement that the bodies had been located.
The student in question is set to face a university hearing.
“We must denounce statements like these, that have no place in discourse between people,” President of the Technion Peretz Lavie said, according to a Facebook post by the university. “We are determined to review the case thoroughly, and take firm, appropriate action against the [student who] wrote the status.”
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