Despite receiving scholarships to universities across the world, approximately 1,000 Palestinian students remain trapped in Gaza as Israel controls the borders and won’t them out. Hundreds of the stranded students gathered outside the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate in Gaza City on April 20 to demand the opening of the Rafah crossing so they can attend school abroad.

“We’ve come today to appeal to anyone who will look into our situation” said student organizer Raghad Alian to Unicorn Riot, “any decision-maker, any official, anyone who will consider the students’ plight as a humanitarian issue.” Alian has now missed two years of school.

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