Israel Blocks Hundreds of Gazans from Pursuing Graduate Study

From Inter Press: Eighteen-year-old Juliet Al-Tork, accepted in
Jordan’s Al-Yarmouk University for a translations course, is among the
hundreds not being allowed by Israel to leave. “All young people are
given the chance to study, and I am not.”

“Israel is preventing the very people it should be
encouraging,” says Sari Bashi, executive director of the Gisha Legal
Centre for Freedom of Movement, a human rights Israeli group lobbying
on behalf of Palestinian students against the closure policy. “Israel
is not just denying Palestinian rights, it is also hurting its own
interests.” Bashi says that close to a thousand students attempt to
leave Gaza each year to pursue higher education; universities in Gaza
offer only undergraduate degrees. This year about a third of them were
allowed out.
(Thanks to Anne Silver…)