UCLA Student Hospitalized During Hunger Strike for Gaza

Date: 21 May 2025 - 22:04

News ID: ۱۳۹۸۰۰

CALIFORNIA (Dispatches) – A University of California, Los Angeles, student was hospitalized after a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza who are on the brink of famine after the Zionist regime implemented an 11-week aid blockade of food, water, and humanitarian aid into the enclave. Palestinian Lebanese film student, Maya Abdullah, 23, ended up in hospital on May 18 after she fainted on the ninth day of her hunger strike, while seeking to pressure her university to divest from the Zionist regime. “On day nine of my hunger strike, I unexpectedly passed out at my school and had to be rushed to the hospital,” she said in a video on Instagram. Abdullah said that UCLA administration did not respond to notice of her hospitalization. She said that being hospitalized and not having a conversation with the administration was “disheartening”.