Exclusive: Back to the crossing again
After waiting many long, tiring months, I was told that I would travel on bus number 25. I was amazed as two months ago I had been told I would travel on bus number 9. But I thought that wouldn’t matter, as the border crossing was to be open for three days.

The Gaza Students’ Plight … Till When?
This is not a new topic if you’ve been following the news this past summer, but unfortunately it’s not becoming old news too! A lot of media coverage has been devoted to the ordeal of the more than 1700 Gazan students who are being deprived from their right to join their universities outside Gaza. Among those 1700 students, if not most of them, are the brightest and the best students who have successfully secured the most prestigious scholarships offered by the best world universities, scholarships like the Fulbright scholarship, the Ford Foundation scholarship, and many others. Until now the majority of them are still trapped in Gaza. What made me blog about the issue is that I have come to know some of those who are trapped, and it’s heart-aching and very much makes you sick to still hear that those bright students are still trapped in Gaza trying to figure out there ways out, to no avail!

Representative of "Let Palestinians Study" Campaign Meets Carter Centre in Gaza
Mohammed Halalo, representative of " Let Palestinians Study" Campaign accompanied with Zuhair Abu Sha'aban, a student who is prevented to study outside Gaza, has met Mr. Timothy Rothermel, Field Office Director of Carter Center in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and Mr. Hrair Balian, Director of Conflict Resolution Program at the Center to discuss the problem of students who could not travel to complete their study outside the Gaza Strip since the imposed siege on the area since 2006.

List of trapped students who have registered through our web site
List of trapped students who have registered through our Let Palestinians Study campaign web site. www.letpalstudy.org.uk (list includes names in Arabic and English)

New Internet Campaign Breaches the Boundaries of the Closure
An online campaign was launched on Sunday 10.8.2008, aims at the right of Palestinian students in Gaza to access their studies abroad. The campaign complements the legal assistance that Gisha (Legal centre for freedom of movement) is providing to individual students in order to help them reach their universities.