Every time an "insurgent" or Arab or Muslim takes hostages, it's front page news. WTF?
Gaza university students banned from leaving for schools abroad by Israeli closure
"GAZA CITY - Mona Bkheet's academic year is under way at Southern Illinois University, but the civil engineering student is far from the classroom, stranded in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip by an Israeli blockade.
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 US universities.
Bkheet, 26, is a PhD student at Southern Illinois in Carbondale - or would have been, had she managed to exit Gaza. Living in the United States since 2005, she had just arrived home to visit her family this summer when the crossings from Gaza into Egypt and Israel were shut.
Though Bkheet's professors have been considerate so far, she said, she is afraid she could lose her financial aid by the time she manages to leave.
"Right now I'm kind of desperate," she said.
You won't be getting the aid anyway, girl.
That money needs to go to the wars -- and Israel!!!!
Hassan el-Nabih, 46, who was supposed to start a PhD program at Boston College, got an Israeli permit and almost made it out of Gaza twice. His bus was turned back the first time because of Palestinian rocket barrage, and the second time he was sent back after Israeli officers questioned him for hours at the border about suspected ties with militant groups.
On second thought, let the Israelis keep them.
We don't need any Palestinian student terrorists to be patsies for the next false-flag operation!
Keep 'em, Israel!
Jack Dunn, director of public affairs at Boston College, said Nabih was scheduled to pursue a degree at the college's Lynch School of Education. "Regrettably, international issues have made student travel restrictions increasingly common, and we hope that the circumstances will be resolved so that Hassan can begin his doctoral studies as soon as possible," Dunn said.
Yeah, it is just regrettable when the criminal hostage-takers are the stink fucking Israelis!!!
Several students have appealed to Israel's Supreme Court to allow them to leave. Shlomo Dror, an Israeli military spokesman, said Israel did not intend to trap the students in Gaza. The problem, Dror said, is that the crossing near the Egyptian border is bombarded with mortar shells by Hamas militants several times a week, as are other crossings out of Gaza.
"We don't want to trap the students in Gaza," Dror said.
A "creative solution" for the students could be in place in the next few days, said Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, declining to give details."
I won't hold my breath waiting, you lying weasel Regev!
Israel can just get away with ANYTHING, huh?
Pfffffftttttt!!!!!!
