Singapore, Mar 6 (PTI) Singapore police are investigating a report over posters put up in the washrooms of a local university claiming that school fees were being used to fund Israel in the war in Gaza, a media report said on Wednesday.

The poster also details various ways Nanyang Technological University is allegedly funding Israel, such as its collaboration with French multinational company Thales, which has a joint research laboratory with the university, and the French National Centre for Scientific Research, according to a report by Today newspaper published on Wednesday.

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Thales designs, develops and manufactures electrical systems as well as devices and equipment for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security sectors.

The poster alleges that Thales has a relationship with Israeli Aerospace Industries and Elbit, an Israel-based international military technology company and defence contractor.

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The poster also claims that the weapons from these two companies have been used during the Israel-Hamas war.

“The posters were not authorised and were removed by campus security,” the newspaper quoted from a NTU press statement on Tuesday.

NTU also said a police report has been made.

According to a post on the online forum Reddit, the posters were found in the toilets of NTU during the university's Open House on Saturday.

Police confirmed on Tuesday that a report was lodged and that investigations are ongoing.

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