Gaza’s 700 Stranded Students
Three days ago, on 1 June, Hadeel Abu Kwaik was sitting in her computer lab at Al-Azhar University in Gaza looking worried, and perplexed. Today, having just been told her Fulbright scholarship has been reinstated, she says she is “Happy but still worried. I’m still not sure we will [all] be able to leave for the US.”
“We are Still Waiting to Visit Our Sons and Daughters in Jail”
Mothers in Gaza hold a weekly vigil at the Red Cross, to highlight the number of Gazan men and women held in Israeli jails, and to demand the right to visit their jailed husbands, sons and daughters.
Palestinians Trapped at Crossroads
Firing home-made primitive rockets at Israeli targets from the Gaza Strip, the mass sweeping through the Palestinian – Egyptian border crossing of Rafah in January and the series of ongoing peaceful demonstrations at Gaza’s crossing points with Israel are not an aggressive demonstration of self-confidence.
