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Two professors were among the 70 people killed Thursday in a series of Israeli airstrikes that hit the southern suburbs of Beirut and southern Lebanon, The Guardian<\/em> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n The two academics\u2014chemist and physicist Hussein Bazzi and physics professor Mortada Srour\u2014worked at Lebanese University, the only state-funded public university in Lebanon. According to L\u2019Orient Today<\/em>, Israel allegedly targeted the two men for their political ties; the publication reported that the Israeli army accused Srour of being \u201ca member of Hezbollah\u2019s aerial unit.\u201d It also alleged that Bazzi was affiliated with the Amal movement in Lebanon.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lebanese University\u2019s president, Joseph Aoun, called Thursday\u2019s attacks a \u201cflagrant violation of international laws and norms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two professors were among the 70 people killed Thursday in a series of Israeli airstrikes that hit the southern suburbs of Beirut and southern Lebanon, The Guardian reported.\u00a0 The two academics\u2014chemist and physicist Hussein Bazzi and physics professor Mortada Srour\u2014worked at Lebanese University, the only state-funded public university in Lebanon. According to L\u2019Orient Today, Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[632,19218,14211,1349,781],"class_list":{"0":"post-46995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-killed","9":"tag-lebanese","10":"tag-professors","11":"tag-strike","12":"tag-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}