   
Israel's Gaza Blockade Continues To Suffocate Daily Life
Amnesty International, International Middle East Media Center, 18 January 2010
Israel must end its suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip, which leaves more than 1.4 million Palestinians cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty, Amnesty International said one year on from the end of Israel's military offensive in Gaza. 
Basic Academic Freedoms and Rights Violated in Israel and Palestinian Territories
, Education International, 7 January 2010
The academic freedom and professional rights of higher education teaching personnel in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza are increasingly under assault as a result of the continuing political conflict in the region, according to a report released by Education International and the Canadian Association of University Teachers. The report goes on to detail how many of the violations of academic freedom in the West Bank and Gaza are a result of the Israeli occupation.
Report on Israeli police/ Military Escort of school children to and from At-Tuwani
Report, Operation Dove/ CPT, 4 November 2009
Read the report on the Israeli military escort which is supposed to accompany children from surrounding villages to their school in At-Tuwani, a village in the South Hebron Hills, in order to protect them from settler attacks. This report covers the period of the 1st of October 2009 to the 30th of October 2009.
Israel pulls textbook over reference to 'ethnic cleansing' of the Palestinians
George Rishmawi , International Middle East Media Center, 25 October 2009
The Ministry of Education in Israel pulled a history textbook because it includes a passage that describes the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians in the creation of the state of Israel as 'Ethnic Cleansing.'
838 Students Still Trying to Leave Gaza for Study Abroad
Gaza, Gisha: Legal Centre for Freedom of Movement, 22 October 2009
Once again, following the start of the academic year at many institutions of higher education around the world, some 838 Palestinian students are still waiting to leave Gaza to study abroad.The students cannot leave due to the Israeli-imposed closure of the Gaza Strip and the rigid criteria for exit via the Erez and Rafah border crossings.
BRICUP Newsletter October 2009
Newsletter, BRICUP, 8 October 2009
Read the British Committee for Universities of Palestine newsletter for July 2009 here.
Goldstone Report expresses alarm at the detention of hundreds of young children
Press Release, DCI-PS, 3 October 2009
On 15 September 2009, the Goldstone Mission published a 575 page report based on the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Report). The fact finding mission was established by the UN in April 2009, following the 23 day war in Gaza which killed over 1,400 hundred Palestinians, including 353 children.
Report on Israeli police/ Military Escort of school children to and from At-Tuwani
Report, Operation Dove/ CPT, 2 October 2009
Read the report on the Israeli military escort which is supposed to accompany children from surrounding villages to their school in At-Tuwani, a village in the South Hebron Hills, in order to protect them from settler attacks. This report covers the period of the 1st of September 2009 to the 30th of September 2009.
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