I found this news article about Berlanty Azzam, a 21 year old college student studying business at the Bethlehem University who will be supposedly graduating in December. She was going to be interviewed for a job in the West Bank capital but unfortunately after the interview she was stopped at a Israeli Army checkpoint on her way back to Bethlehem where she wasn't allowed to leave after she handed in her papers.
The soldiers without any explanation, blindfolded and handcuffed her into a military car after being held for five hours in the station.
Apparently , Azzam was being transported from the Palestinian West Bank to the Gaza Strip becuase the military said she was residing illegally in the West Bank and she had violeted the terms of a permit that allowed her to stay in Jerusalem for a few days in August 2005.
Azzam was aware of this but she said that staying int he West Bank was the only way she could go to school and now that she is back in Gaza it is very likely that she will not be permited to go back to the West Bank to finish school.
Due to this, Israel passed strict restrictions on Palestinians which also extended to Gaza habitants who have been accpeted to universities in the US and Europe.
The Israeli organization, Gisha took Azzam's case and made a petition in the Israeli Supreme Court to allow Azzam to go back to her studies while Azzam is happy to reunite with her family but disappointed that after four years studying she wasn't able to return with her degree.
This case could be a problem since there are surely more students from Gaza in the same situation that haven't been discovered yet.
For more information...
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/31/west.bank.college.student/index.html
