zlacker

I used to feel like you until I befriended a Palestinian in college. He had to take a year off because Israel denied him a permit to leave Gaza to attend college in the US. He had every document and paid tuition, but the Israeli government did not let him leave.

Since then I realized I cannot just let what's happening over there stay over there. I would want him to have cared and known and tried to help if I were in his place.

>>aprilt+(OP)
Egypt, not Israel, is where most Gazans travel through. Sounds like Hamas wouldn’t let him leave and he pinned this on Israel.

>>flying+js1
There are multiple documented instances of this happening where Israel is the one who denies the visa or fails to provide it.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2007/11/19/gaza-israel-blocks-670-s...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palesti...

From a cursory reading[1], it seems Israel had for a long time the ability to veto any human's exit from Gaza through the Rafah crossing in Egypt. Seems to only be the last 5 years where they were not able to do this and that border crossing was open. I graduated from University in 2017.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafah_Border_Crossing