"We have established an online forum for Palestinian medical students to break the siege or at least to make a small hole in the ugly wall. We want to make the voice of our medical students reached to other medical students and medical stuffs worldwide. Our students deserve good places to undertake proper postgraduate training and we think that this electronic window might give them the opportunity to gather information about better chances of such training. If not, it will at least improve their English language.
"We would be very grateful if you participate in this website and encourage your students to be actively involved in this forum. Advertisement for this website in British and American universities surely will be of a great benefit, not only for medical students, but for whole Palestinian community who surely will survive this new holocaust."
The website address is here.
The Right to Education is based on the legal and moral authority of a host of international agreements relating to education and the protection and freedom of students and children.
Gaza bomb kills university lecturer (Big News Network, 30th Nov 2004)
An-Najah is also providing video conferences to allow students from outside Palestine to have some first hand contact with students there.
Web link for the video conference
The Impact of the Imposed
Israeli Occupation Siege on An-Najah National University Students
A devastating collection of testimonies by students to routine beatings,
humiliation and racist treatment at the hands of the Israelis.
Press Release 6 July 2004:
An-Najah National University condemns the killing of its instructor the Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Khalid Salah, 50 years old and his son Muhammad this early morning the 6th July 2004.
Prof. Khalid Salah was killed in cold blood by the Israeli Occupation Forces in his flat with his family and His son, Muhammad, sixteen-years old, was also killed. Both were left bleeding for four hours until they died. Medical teams were not allowed to offer its urgent first aid to them.
Prof. Khalid Salah was born in 1950. He started work at the university in 1979.
He recieved his MBA in Electronic Engineering from Wales in the United Kingdom in 1980. He was awarded his PhD in the Electrical Engineering from California University (Davis) in 1985.
An-Najah National University appeals to the international community's associations, local and international human rights as well as the academic institutions all over the world to put pressure on the Israeli government to stop such aggressions against Palestinian citizens.
"In discussions with our colleagues in the trade union representing Palestinian university teachers, a proposal has emerged to initiate a pilot twinning programme with Bethlehem University. Local associations whose institutions have relevant disciplines and/or funding that could help go towards providing resources for an effective twinning arrangement, are asked to nominate themselves for this exercise"
Wave of arrests at Birzeit University
Right to Education, 3rd March 2008
Head of Birzeit University Student Council sentenced to 1yr
Right to Education Campaign, 8th Dec 2007 (see below for previous article)
Head of Birzeit Student Council arrested by Israeli army
Right to Education Campaign, 26th Nov 2007
| Friends of Bir Zeit University | 1 Gough Square | |
| Tel: 020 7832 1340 | London | |
| Fax: 020 7832 1349 | EC4A 3DE | |
| email: fobzu@fobzu.org |
This is a UK charity sponsored by (among others) Sir Michael Atiyah and Sir Eric Ash. Its purpose is the collection of books and long runs of periodicals for distribution to Palestinian universities and other institutions. Publications at all levels and in most subjects are needed. Some institutions and publishers have made generous donations (e.g. the Royal Society, Manchester University Library, the Mathematics Institute at Warwick, Macmillans).
The process is quite simple : contact your colleagues and ask them to package books in manageable strong cardboard boxes marked Gaza Library Project. Contact either M. Payne (Secretary to the Trustees) or Rosemarie and Tony Zahlan (trustees). They will arrange for collection and shipment.
Students have constantly re-opened the gates in order to attend their classes, only to have them welded shut again by the IDF.
This site is owned and maintained by Sue Blackwell.
It was last updated on 19th June 2008.