Press Release
For Immediate Release 6 July 2004
Condemnation of the Killing of Prof. Khalid Salah
An-Najah National University condemns the killing of its instructor the Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Khalid Salah, 50 years old and his son Muhammad this early morning the 6th July 2004.
Prof. Khalid Salah was killed in cold blood by the Israeli Occupation Forces in his flat with his family and His son, Muhammad, sixteen-years old, was also killed. Both were left bleeding for four hours until they died. Medical teams were not allowed to offer its urgent first aid to them.
Prof. Khalid Salah was born in 1950, he started work at the university in 1979.
He recieved his MBA in Electronic Engineering from Wales in the United Kingdom in 1980. He was awarded his PhD in the Electrical Engineering from California University (Davis) in 1985.
An-Najah National University appeals to the international community’s associations, local and international human rights as well as the academic institutions all over the world to put pressure on the Israeli government to stop such aggressions against Palestinian citizens.