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Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education , Maan News Agency, 13 March 2008
Israeli military forces killed 22 Palestinian students in the last week, 20 of them in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Ministry of Education said on Thursday. Ten other students were injured. 
Palestinian children face the challenges of getting an education during conflict
Monica Awad, UNICEF, 3 January 2008
Ongoing conflict poses threats to the education of Palestinian children. Not only is safe access to school often jeopardized, but it is hard for them to thrive once they get into the classroom.
Education suffers amidst political tension and conflict in Gaza
Toni O'Loughlin , UNICEF, 3 January 2008
Palestinians have long traded on excellence in education as an investment in the future, working their way into the upper echelons of governments and businesses throughout the region. Now, increased political tensions and conflict are having devastating effects in Gaza, where children make up more than half of the population.
Settlers Attack Cordoba School in Hebron
International Solidarity Movement, ISM, 26 November 2007
Once again settlers have attack Cordoba school in central Hebron. When the teachers and pupils arrived at the school yesterday morning they found their garden vandalized and big rocks lying on the pathway leading to the school.
Fate of about 3,000 Students Threatened by the Closure of the Gaza Strip
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, PCHR Press Release, 24 November 2007
PCHR condemns the IOF ban on the travel of Gaza Strip students to travel abroad to pursue studies in universities and schools abroad. The Centre calls upon the international community and international organizations, especially UNESCO and the ICRC, to pressure Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) to allow more than 2,700 students to travel so as to avert the negative consequences on their educational future.
Israel Blocks 670 Gaza Students from Studies Abroad
Human Rights Watch, New York, 21 November 2007
The Israeli government is arbitrarily blocking some 670 students in Gaza from pursuing higher education abroad, Human Rights Watch said today. Israel is denying exit permits that the young men and women need to leave Gaza for university programs in countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Germany, Britain, and the United States.
Closure of crossings traps students in Gaza
Rory McCarthy , The Guardian, 6 November 2007
The Israeli government has allowed a limited number of Palestinians to leave Gaza through the Erez border crossing, which leads into Israel, and from there on to Tel Aviv airport or overland into Jordan. In August, Israel began taking students out through Erez and driving them by bus to the Nitzana crossing, which leads into Egypt. However the bus ran only four times, allowing fewer than 550 people to leave, of whom about 80 were students. It has not run since early September.
Gaza College Students Trapped in Gaza
Sarah El Deeb and Matti Friedman , Associated Press, 31 October 2007
Human rights groups say 670 Palestinian students have become trapped in Gaza since the Islamic militants took over the territory this summer and Israel halted travel in and out. More than 30 of the students are enrolled at U.S. universities.
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