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Les étudiants de Gaza restent bloqués à la frontière de Rafah

VILLE DE GAZA, Bande de Gaza – Le passage frontalier de Rafah a été fermé aux Palestiniens cherchant à voyager en dehors de la Bande de Gaza. Cette fermeture intervient au lendemain des développements qu’a connu le voisin Egyptien et ses répercussions dramatiques sur les relations entre le pouvoir Egyptien appuyé par l’armée et le gouvernement Hamas.

Boycott, Academic Freedom, and the Moral Responsibility to Uphold Human Rights

In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order, and the general welfare in a democratic society.
—United Nations, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (1948), Article 29(2)

Discrimination at every level of the [Israeli] education system winnows out a progressively larger proportion of Palestinian Arab children as they progress through the school system—or channels those who persevere away from the opportunities of higher education. The hurdles Palestinian Arab students face from kindergarten to university function like a series of sieves with sequentially finer holes.
—Human Rights Watch, “Second Class: Discrimination against Palestinian Arab Children in Israel’s Schools” (2001)