Abdelhakim is a student from Zliten in his final year of medicine at Benghazi. He’s also one of the last students still living in university housing.

Last Friday, the chancellor ordered that students from towns other than Benghazi leave the university. He said that he didn’t want to be held responsible if something happened to them, because the 17 February Brigade is based opposite the university campus.

Around 40 of us have stayed. As for me, I’m in my final year of studying medicine at the hospital of Benghazi. I would like to try to complete this year and get my diploma, especially given that up until now, we hadn’t been affected by the fighting. But yesterday, a group from Ansar al-Sharia broke into the campus and fired missiles from the square in front of the university residence. Now we are seriously considering leaving campus to go stay with our friends or with those dear to us who live in the city. We spent all morning inside because of the exchanges of fire happening outside.