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------------------------------------------------------------ The Big Issue Newspaper - Manchester click here to read the article: Behind the Blockade 1 , 2 ------------------------------------------------------------ NUS Black Achievers’ Awards 2008 Held at Black Students’ Conference in June, the NUS Black Achievers’ Awards recognised and celebrated the achievements of individuals and students’ unions that have demonstrated exemplary support for Black students across the UK. Palestinian student Khaled Al-Mudallal was one of two individuals named Black Student of the Year 2008. Khaled was detained in Gaza as a result of restrictions on his movement, imposed by Israeli authorities, preventing him from completing his degree at Bradford University. Following huge international pressure, Khaled was allowed to return and has since spent much of his time speaking at various meetings and events across the country to raise awareness of the situation. Khaled Al-Mudalla said: "I am proud that NUS supports and works so hard for my campaign and that students in the UK have campaigned for my right to education and my right of movement, I wish that this support from NUS would continue for all issues of Palestine. "Winning the award is not the end of my campaign, but it will be the start for a bigger campaign and events to reflect on the need of education freedom in Palestine. "During the Black Students Conference we launched a new campaign called, ‘Let Palestinians study’. This aims [to build] an awareness to British students and gain enough support by students’ unions, teachers, lecturers, MPs, etc." Award winners Black Student of the Year
Khaled Al-Mudallal - letkhaledstudy.co.uk
Sarika Singh - supportsarika.co.uk/ Black Student Officer of the Year
Sky La-Foucade - University of East London
Adil Ahmed - Teeside University Campaign of the Year
Let Luqman Stay - Sussex University
Palestine Society - LSE Student Union of the Year
Nottingham Trent University
Westminster Kingsway College source: http://www.officeronline.co.uk/black/articles/275589.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------
Press Release: Launching 'Let Palestinians Study' Campaign in UK This week, representatives from Israeli human rights organization Gisha are in Britain to meet NUS Black Students' Officer Ruqayyah Collector and others to discuss the new campaign - 'Let the Palestinians Study' - launched last week at the National Union of Students' Black Students' Campaign conference in Coventry.
Khaled AlMudallal, helping to lead the campaign, is a Palestinian student who last year was trapped in Gaza for six months, and prevented from returning to his studies at Bradford University, as a result of Israeli policies restricting freedom of movement imposed as part of the year-long siege of Gaza. Gisha played a major role in securing Khaled's release last December.
Khaled was just one of hundreds of students prevented from leaving Gaza to attend university. Many remain trapped and are prevented from taking up places at universities around the world.
Higher education opportunities are extremely limited in Gaza. Many vital disciplines, including speech therapy, dentistry and physical therapy are not taught in Gaza, and there is no opportunity for doctoral study in Gaza or the West Bank.
Khaled AlMudallal said: "Campaigners in Britain played an important role in putting pressure on the Israeli government to allow me to leave and return to my studies. The new 'Let the Palestinians Study' campaign hopes to achieve the same success for the hundreds of students who remain trapped in Gaza."
NUS Black Students' Officer Ruqayyah Collector said: "I'm pleased to give this campaign my full backing. What's happening in Gaza is nothing short of a full-scale humanitarian crisis. The Palestinians urgently need our solidarity to know that they are not being ignored by the international community - and our government urgently needs to listen to calls for the right to education."
Palestine Solidarity Campaign student officer George Woods said: "Our government's claim to desire a just, peaceful solution to the occupation of Palestine rings hollow when they ignore the hundreds of students who like Khaled have had their education trampled on by consequence of Israel's devastating policies towards the Gaza strip."
Click here to watch the launching video:
http://www.youtube.com/letpalstudy
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PALESTINE LIVES 2008 1-4pm Saturday 7th June Albert Square, Manchester
A celebration of Palestinian art, culture, history and experience
Bringing together artists, poets and musicians from Palestine and the UK to celebrate the fact that Palestine and its culture still despite the 60 years of the Nakba.
There will be stalls informing people of the issues facing the people in the Middle East, as well as peace organisations campaigning not just for peace in the region but against nuclear weapons and all war.
Speakers will bring messages of solidarity to assure the Palestinian people of our continued support in their struggle for peace and justice.
This event comes at a time when the situation in Palestine, particularly in Gaza is at crisis point, with people, especially children, starving, and dying due to lack of food, water and medicines.
We are committed through this event to raising awareness n the face of a daily hostile press and media. Speakers include: Baroness Jenny Tonge, Patron of PSC
Musheir al Farrar, Palestinian from Gaza, Sheffield PSC
Khaled AlMuddalal, Palestinian student from Gaza
Linda Ramsden, Director of ICAHD UK
Richard Kuper, Jews for Justice for Palestinians
Linda Clair, Manchester PSC
During the event there will be music, food, a march around the town centre, all in celebration of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
For a flyer in English, please click here.
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Gaza Under Siege: Meeting at Westminster 18.2.08 The PSC organised a well attended meeting at Portcullis House yesterday to discuss the continually deteriorating situation in Gaza . Opening the two-hour series of talks, Palestinian Ambassador Manuel Hassassian described the loss of hope following the aftermath to Annapolis and the “drip, drip, drip of death from Gaza ”. The Ambassador challenged the Israeli government agenda accusing them of acting totally against the spirit of Annapolis . Richard Burton MP, chair of the all-party group on Palestine , repeated the question often asked by the UN’s John Ging; “are Gazan civilians more able to stop the rockets than the IDF?”. He quoted a Palestinian he had recently met who told him that the Palestinians were “not dying, not living, but somewhere in between”.
Speaking at the event were: Prof Manuel Hassassian, Palestinian General Delegate to the UK, Khaled Al-Mudallal, Palestinian Student and Peace Activist from Gaza, Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, ICAHD Advocacy Officer, Jeremy Corbyn MP,Phyllis Starkey MP,Richard Burden MP,Linda Newman, President UCU, Hugh Lanning, Deputy General Secretary PCS,Dr Daud Abdullah MCB, Sarah Colborne, Chair PSC
------------------------------------------------------ Siege Student in election ban: "I want to repay people's support" By: Paddy McGuffin - T&A reporter A Bradford university student who was detained under siege in Gaza for six months last year has been banned from standing in the Student Union elections because he failed to register while he was trapped in Palestine. Khaled Al-Mudallal was prevented from leaving the war-torn Gaza Strip by the Israelis when the year’s studies began in September and therefore was unable to register as a student. Mr Al-Mudallal, a business and management student was allowed to rejoin his course and sit the nessary exams after his release from the occupied territory in December. Full article (pdf file) ------------------------------------------------------ Student tells of Gaza siege hell Bradford University student Khaled al-Mudallal is delighted to be back after spending six months trapped in Gaza by an Israeli siege - but he faces only a few weeks before his first catch-up exams. Mr al-Mudallal, 22, of Great Horton, had returned to the city of Raffah to get married when he was trapped by Israel's decision to close its border with Gaza. Passage in and out of the region was severely restricted and supplies of food, power and aid were cut off. But Mr al-Mudallal and his wife were among around 700 people allowed to leave by the Israelis, and he is now able to turn his attention to his business degree. "I am delighted to be back in Bradford," he said. "I really want to thank everybody who has campaigned to allow me to return. I am looking forward to getting back to my studies and seeing my friends. "I have been to the School of Management at the university and they have agreed to let me do half my exams in January to help me catch up. It means I will have a very short time to revise but there's nothing else I can do." Reflecting on the six months he spent trapped in Gaza, Mr al-Mudallal said: "I have been stuck in Raffah because of the siege. The only border was closed by the Israelis and thousands of people have been prevented from leaving or moving freely in Gaza. "The Israelis have stopped aid getting in and out, cut the electricity and petrol and have even prevented medicine from getting to the sick people who need it. "More than 30 cancer patients have died because of the lack of treatment available. The patients are not allowed to leave to go to other hospitals and there is not enough medicine available. "Prices for basic food stuffs and provisions have shot up because of the shortage. Gaza is now more expensive than London. You have a situation where 1.7 million people, which is one of the largest populations for the size of the area in the world, are being held hostage by the Israeli government. "We were all very scared that they would invade, and that is still a big fear. "We hoped that Annapolis (the recent US-brokered peace talks) would achieve something but just hours before the talks ten people were killed in Gaza and now afterwards nothing has changed. "The people of Gaza are suffering and nothing is being done. ------------------------------------------------------ Closure of crossings traps students in Gaza The Guardian
November 6, 2007
Rory McCarthy
Khaled al-Mudallal expected to spend this autumn sitting in lectures and writing papers for his final year in business and management studies in Bradford, the town he has lived in for six years. But when Mr Mudallal, 22, went home to visit his wife and family in Gaza this summer he found himself trapped. Within a few days of his return Hamas, the Islamist movement which won Palestinian elections last year, seized control of the Gaza Strip. Israel closed the crossings out of Gaza and six weeks ago declared the small stretch of land a "hostile entity". He is one of 670 Palestinian students in Gaza with places on university courses abroad who are unable to return to their studies. Supported by an Israeli human rights group, Gisha, the students have brought a second petition to Israel's supreme court demanding the right to travel after a first petition was rejected. A response is expected today. Read more.
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October 19, 2007
Silvio Rodrigues
Palestinians students in Gaza demonstrated on Oct. 9 against the Israeli blockade, which is now preventing them from returning to their schools abroad. Palestinians are also being barred from attending Israeli universities, whose school term started on Oct. 15. Khaled Mudallal, a British-educated business student, was the first to legally challenge the lockdown, but the Israeli Supreme Court turned him down. Mudallal traveled to Gaza to marry his fiancée and has been unable to return to Bradford University to complete his third year. The lockdown was put in place as part of Israel’s efforts to crush the influence of Hamas in Gaza and destroy the larger Palestinian liberation movement. The plight of the students exemplifies the hardships imposed by the Israeli blockade of Gaza, which has further cemented the status of the Palestinians as prisoners in their own land. ------------------------------------------------------
Plea for PM to help student
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October 12, 2007
Paddy McGuffin
An online petition calling for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to intercede on behalf of a student stranded in the Gaza strip has been signed by almost 1,000 people. Khaled al-Mudallal, 22, is one of hundreds of Palestinian students studying in Britain who are trapped in Gaza following an Israeli military clampdown on the region. Mr al-Mudallal first came to Bradford with his parents and family almost ten years ago.
He studied for his GCSEs and A-Levels in the city and is now studying business management at Bradford University. He returned to Gaza this summer to marry and bring his wife, Duaa, back to Bradford with him but has been trapped there for four months in an increasingly unstable situation. He was due to resume his studies at the beginning of this month but fears his education and his job here are in jeopardy due to his enforced absence. Speaking at a rally, family friend Nafees Nazir said: "Khaled really enjoyed Bradford and had a lot of friends here. "He is a very mature young man and was working hard in his studies. It was difficult for a young man to do that without his family here. He wanted to bring his wife over. "The last thing he said to me before he left was that he would be back in a week - that was months ago. It is a terrible injustice to deny someone their education. I'm very upset for him." Gemma Tumelty, president of the National Union of Students, said: The Prime Minister should call on the Israeli government to allow Khaled Al-Mudallal to leave Gaza immediately. The right to education is a human right as stated in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "The right for students to study freely and safely across the world must be defended. Education will be central to finding a peaceful resolution in the Middle East." University of Bradford Students' Union communications officer Naa-anyima Quaye said: "Students at the University of Bradford have shown full support to Khaled at this worrying time. "The Students' Union will be working to mobilise full support for Khaled's campaign to help guarantee his return to his studies as soon as possible. "We urge all supporters to sign the national petition and contact the Prime Minister to demand Khaled's right to education." A public meeting is to be held at Bradford University next week, with the time and exact venue to be confirmed. A number of guest speakers have already been signed up.
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Trapped in Gaza, but I should be in Bradford The Times
October 5, 2007
James Hider in Gaza City As with many Palestinians, the right of return is a major preoccupation for Khaled al-Mudallal. The return he is campaigning for, however, is not to an ancestral village in Israel. He wants to be allowed to go back to Bradford. The 22-year-old student should be starting autumn term at the University of Bradford, working mornings at a local hardware store, studying in the daytime and socialising with friends in the evenings. Instead he is one of thousands of people who have been trapped for four months inside the Gaza Strip, unable to leave because of the Israeli lockdown on the territory since the radical Islamist group Hamas took power in June. A studious young man with a hint of a Yorkshire accent, Mr al-Mudallal travelled in June to Gaza from Bradford, where he has lived for more than six years, to pick up Duaa, his wife, and take her to England. While in Gaza, however, warfare erupted between Hamas and its western-backed rival Fatah, leaving the Islamists in control. With Hamas refusing to recognise Israel's right to exist, the Jewish state has sealed the borders, allowing only a trickle of people in or out. On Tuesday the Supreme Court rejected a plea by the Israeli human rights group Gisha to allow Mr al-Mudallal to return to England and resume his third year of business management studies. "It's killing my future aspirations," said Mr al-Mudallal yesterday at the Islamic University, where he has volunteered to teach business studies in English while awaiting his fate. He said that there were 6,000 people on the waiting list, including many other students at risk of losing their scholarships and university places abroad. Israeli army buses have taken out only 450 people in the past two months. "At the rate they are going, it'll take one and a half years to get out of Gaza," said Sari Bashi, the director of Gisha. Before he left Bradford, Mr al-Mudallal rented a house and bought a car. Now his debts are running up in England and he is in danger of losing his part-time job as a sales assistant. He moved to Bradford at the age of 16 to be with his father, a professor from the southern Gaza refugee city of Rafah, who was doing a course in peace studies there. He stayed on and earned a place at the university. "I'm not causing a security threat to the Israelis," he said. "I'm not fighting to get my village back, I just want to leave and get back to my studies." He has been heartened by rallies of support at the university, where 200 students came together to back his cause. They have set up a website, www.letkhaledstudy.co.uk, which features a letter-writing campaign to Gordon Brown. "I miss everyone over there," he said. "I ask them to get on with their lives, but not to forget about me." While his fellow students swing back into the rhythm of university life, Mr al-Mudallal faces an uncertain future, unsure if his studies will continue. But still he dreams of returning to complete his bachelor's degree and start postgraduate studies before eventually returning to help Gaza, where the economy has collapsed under the weight of embargo. "For me, my education is my soul," he said. ------------------------------------------------------Palestinian students trapped in Gaza
Letters
Friday October 5, 2007
The Guardian
We find it deeply ironic, given the recent heated debate on the proposed academic boycott of Israeli universities by the UCU (Report, September 29), that the Israeli supreme court on October 2 ruled that Kahled al-Mudallal, a Bradford University student, cannot leave Gaza and return to his studies in the UK. We hope the voices that criticised the boycott and called so vociferously for preserving academic freedom and promoting dialogue will lend their support to those of us calling on the Israeli government to reverse the supreme court decision, and on the UK government to do all in its power to support the human rights of students like Kahled.
This is not just an issue of academic freedom, important though that is, but is a flagrant breach of a fundamental human right to education. This judgment undermines both academic freedom and the very possibility of constructive dialogue across communities.
Sarah Perrigo,
Dr Mandy Turner,
Prof Jenny Pearce,
Prof Mike Pugh,
Prof Donna Pankhurst,
Prof Nana Poku,
Valentina Bartolucci and 10 others
Department of peace studies, University of Bradford The right to education is a human right as stated in the UN universal declaration of human rights. Khaled al-Mudallal is one of hundreds of Palestinian students who are currently unable to leave Gaza to begin the new academic year. The British government should do everything in its power to ensure that Israel lifts the restrictions that are preventing Khaled and other students leaving Gaza to complete their education.
Richard Burden MP
Gemma Tumelty President, NUS
Sally Hunt General secretary, UCU
Ruqayyah Collector NUS Black Students' Campaign
Dan Judelson Jews for Justice for Palestinians
Professor Irene Bruegel
Betty Hunter Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Professor Lynne Segal
Richard Kuper ------------------------------------------------------
Israeli High Court Declines to Intervene in Military Policy Trapping U.K. Student in Gaza
News Release,
Tuesday October 2, 2007
Khaled Mudallal is one of hundreds of students trapped in Gaza and at risk of losing his place at university. Tuesday, October 2, 2007: Today, Israel ’s Supreme Court rejected a petition from a talented student and his bride trapped in Gaza and unable to reach his studies at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom . The court accepted the military’s policy allowing just a few dozen people to leave Gaza in intermittent “shuttle buses” – even though thousands need to reach schools and jobs abroad. The student, Khaled Mudallal, trapped in Gaza for four months, risks losing his place in the business program of the University of Bradford . His classes began yesterday. Gisha-Legal Center for Freedom of Movement petitioned the court on his behalf. Bradford University students are holding a rally today in support of Khaled’s right to return to his studies. At today’s court hearing, the three-justice panel accepted the military’s position that Khaled would be allowed out of Gaza, if and when “shuttle buses” allowing limited numbers of Gaza residents to leave via the Erez Crossing with Israel are renewed – and if there is room on the buses. No one has left Gaza via the buses since September 6.
Gisha argued that Israel has an obligation to allow Khaled to leave Gaza and to reach his studies, and that sporadic shuttle buses are inadequate. Since June, only 450 people have been allowed to leave Gaza on the buses – even though an estimated 5,000 people need to leave for schools and jobs abroad. Khaled is one of hundreds of students prevented from studying abroad by the closure of Gaza ’s borders. Israel, which does not let people leave or enter Gaza via ship or airplane, also exercises substantial control over Gaza’s border with Egypt and has participated in keeping it closed since June 9, just before Hamas took over internal control of Gaza. “I only ask for my right to return to university,” said the student Khaled Mudallal. “I want to continue studying. I want to graduate.” “There is no justification for allowing just a few dozen people to leave Gaza – when thousands are trapped,” said Sari Bashi, Director of Gisha. “Preventing Khaled – and other students– from reaching their studies violates their basic rights to freedom of movement and access to education”. Bashi said that Gisha will now challenge the “quota” restricting exit from the Gaza Strip. To view Gisha’s web site: http://www.gisha.org/ ------------------------------------------------------
Student trapped in Gaza loses fight to return to study in Britain
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By Donald Macintyre in Gaza City
The Independent
Oct 3 2007
A third-year Bradford University student – one of hundreds whose continued studies are at risk because they cannot leave Gaza – yesterday lost his legal attempt to be allowed urgently to return to Britain.
Israel's Supreme Court yesterday rejected a petition brought on behalf of Khaled al-Mudallal by the Israeli human rights organisation Gisha, which it hoped would pave the way for the departure of Palestinian students trapped since Hamas's seizure of Gaza in June.
Mr Mudallal returned to Gaza in June to collect his new bride Duaa – who also has a British residence permit valid until November 2010 – but was prevented from leaving when Israel closed the crossing into Egypt after the Fatah-Hamas infighting that broke out after he arrived.
He says his final year, rented house, part-time job and a year-long work placement built into his business and management course are threatened because he cannot take vital exams he was forced to postpone because of an earlier closure when he came back to get married last December.
The plight of Mr Mudallal, 22, has attracted strong support from the Bradford University students' union and the National Union of Students.
Since mid-August, Israel has allowed between 450 and 600 students to leave from the Erez crossing into Israel to Nitzana on the Israel-Egypt border. But between 4,000 and 5,000 Palestinians with work or study permits abroad are trapped, and no buses have left since 6 September.
However, the Supreme Court yesterday accepted the Israeli state's argument that it intended to resume shuttle buses. Gisha said this meant that Mr Mudallal would have to take his turn "if and when the buses resume".
Mr Mudallal said yesterday that his manager had warned him that he would not be able to keep open the part-time job he needs to finance his studies and his £400 monthly rent and utility bills. "Britain has a great place in my heart and I want to continue my studies there but then come back and make whatever contribution I can to my people here," he said.
Sari Bashi, the director of Gisha, said yesterday: "Preventing Khaled and other students from reaching their studies violates their basic right to freedom of movement and access to education."
Mark Regev, the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, said the court was "independent and highly professional". He added: "If it says this petition was not justified it may well be right."
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Bradford students held a rally in support of a colleague who is trapped in Gaza following a crackdown by Israeli authorities.
Telegraph & Argus
Oct. 2nd 2007
Watch the report here.
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Israel bars students from leaving Gaza at last minute |
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| | On Monday night, the Defense Ministry telephoned the Israeli liaison office for the Gaza Strip and delivered surprising news: Despite lengthy prior coordination, civilians would not be allowed to leave the strip through the Erez and Nitzana crossings.
But the Ministry for Civilian Affairs in Ramallah, the Palestinian body that coordinated the passage through the crossings, did not receive this message. Thus the ministry, which is the liaison office's Palestinian counterpart, could not inform its Gaza office - which is manned by Fatah loyalists.
As a result, the ministry's head, Hussein al-Sheikh, had already announced the happy but false news on Tuesday: Students from Gaza would be allowed to go through the crossings to study abroad. There are currently several thousand Palestinian students who have been accepted to universities abroad, but cannot leave the strip through Israel to attend. |
| | A Palestinian official said that no more than 100 students have been allowed to leave since June. The Israeli authorities had agreed to allow 700 students to leave, but the remaining 600 are still waiting.
Some of these 600 students arrived at Erez Tuesday, expecting to be allowed through. One of them, call him B., realized something had gone wrong only after getting there. Eventually, he was told to head back home.
B. was accepted into a scholarship program for a master's degree in Britain. Hamoked - the Center for the Defense of the Individual, a Jerusalem-based Israeli organization whose main objective is to assist Palestinians whose rights have been violated by Israel's policies, helped B. obtain clearance to leave. But if he fails to arrive in the United Kingdom by today, September 20, he can forget about his scholarship. In despair, B. called Hamoked to tell them that he and another 200 people had been sent away from the crossing and not allowed to go through.
The Israel Defense Forces Spokesman's Office told Haaretz on Tuesday that it was not aware of any security limitations that necessitated closing down the Erez crossing. "Go ask the liaison office," it said.
The liaison office referred questions to the Ministry of Defense, but added that only those who were supposed to leave on student visas were barred from crossing. "Regular travelers" were allowed to go through as usual. But the term "regular travelers" refers only to sick people who need medical attention in Israel or Palestinians with special permits to either enter or transit Israel or the West Bank.
Moreover, one holder of such a permit, M., begged to differ with the liaison office's claim. M., a Gaza factory owner and holder of a permit for business people, said he came to the crossing before the cabinet declared Gaza a hostile entity yesterday. "I came there on Tuesday morning," he said. "We were 150 people, mostly sick people and businessmen. They let only 15 people through. Maybe less. They kept us there for hours, and then told us we had to go back."
M. was scheduled to cross over to Jordan from Israel. "I don't want to open a factory in the West Bank," he said, referring to what many Gaza businessmen now hope to do. Instead, M. wants to set up shop in the Hashemite Kingdom. "But now, they won't let me through to Jordan. It's not Hamas who didn't let me through today. It's not Hamas that's keeping me out of business," he complained. "It's a recipe for suicide."
The Defense Ministry referred Haaretz's query on the students to the chief of staff's office. From there, it went back to the IDF Spokesman's Office - which, once again, said the agency qualified to answer the question was the liaison office.
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Student trapped in siege of Gaza
By Paddy McGuffin
Telegraph & Argus
Sept. 26th 2007 A Bradford student is trapped in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli government laid siege to the territory. The 22-year-old has completed two years of a business management degree at the University of Bradford but can't return to finish his studies because of the blockade. The Israelis have branded Gaza hostile territory and are preventing all movement in or out. Water, electricity and fuel supplies have been cut and there are growing fears the area could be invaded. Now Khaled al-Mudallal, a Gaza native who is living in Great Horton, is to make a desperate plea to the Israeli Supreme Court to be allowed to resume his studies. His case has been taken up by a human rights organisation and the University says it hopes his situation can be resolved "quickly and peacefully." Khaled had returned to Gaza to be with his wife, Duaa, when he became caught up in the political situation. Speaking to the Telegraph & Argus from Rafah, he said: "I was supposed to start my third year this week, I am already missing my studies. I am being denied my human rights. I came back for a few days to collect my wife and I have been stuck here for three and a half months.
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Student challenges Gaza lockdown in court By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
The Independent
Sept. 22nd 2007 A Palestinian student urgently trying to get back to Bradford University has become the first test case of new restrictions on movements in and out of Gaza since Israel identified it as "hostile territory"this week. The Israeli Supreme Court is to hear a petition tomorrow brought on behalf of Khaled Mudallal, 22, a British-educated business and management student who risks losing his third year if he does not return to Bradford next week. Read more...
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